In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with. This book analyses English economic discourse during this p

Neither their theoretical achievements nor their failures can be understood without this context.".

The Description for this book, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England, will be forthcoming.

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of nationa

The growth of serious interest during the last fifty years in the scholastic contribution to the development of economic thought has been very marked, and no-wh