Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The genealogy of a ‹rst book is complex and thus the list of those to be thanked long: the family and friends who ran our errands when we disappeared into the stacks for weeks on end, the colleagues who covered our classes, the professors who inspired, corrected, and cajoled, and the departmental secretary who got our committees to the defense on time. To my parents, then, because they were my ‹rst teachers of bookkeeping and budgeting .To Messrs. Bass, Friedman, Allen, Monaghan, Seiden, and Stempel who taught me the ins and outs of business, and to the gentlemen at Rosenfeld, Hauptman and Shields, who were never too busy to teach a bookkeeper just a little more accounting.To Professors Trainor, Harris, and Greene at New York University (SCE) who believed economics was essential . To Professor Rogers who taught me to look beyond disciplinary boundaries. To Professors James R. Jacob, Bernard Semmel, and Stuart E. Prall at the Graduate Center (CUNY), who made a historian out of me, sometimes even against my will. To Mrs. Betty Einerman, for treating graduate students with tender, loving care. To Ms. Francine Kapchan, Ms. Marilyn Harris, and Professors Frank Warren and Martin Pine at Queens College (CUNY) who also believed adjuncts were human beings.To all my colleagues at Bronx Community College (CUNY), but especially to Professor James D. Ryan, Professor Jacqueline Gutwirth, Mrs. Paulette Randall , and Mrs. Regine Cajuste for seeing me through. To my family, my friends, my students, and Miss Edelman who began it all, I say, with thanks, the mistakes are mine, the credit is thine. ...