Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment.
Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment carefully explores contemporary debates about economic institutions, which were a crucial element in the race for controlling international trade. Eighteenth-century thinkers devoted much attention to the relative merits of existing institutions, such as free ports, grasped the dangers of economic dependence, and appraised emerging conceptions of property rights. The author draws on an impressive range of sources, including pamphlets and travel accounts, and work from lesser-known figures such as Pierre Poivre and Ange Goudar.
This volume will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of the history of economic thought, economic history, political economy, the history of ideas, and global history.
Author(s): J. Bohorquez
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
PART I: “The granary of the universe” Travelogues, observations, evidence, and a global history of property
1 Pierre Poivre: A microglobal life
2 Eighteenth-century travel accounts: Platforms for economic observations
3 Feudal laws: Liberties for a few
4 An empirical turn: Evidence and the attack on the economists
5 Property rights: A global history
PART II: “A universal warehouse of workforce” Reindustrialisation, delocalisation, deurbanisation, and the propagation of economic maxims
6 Ange Goudar: Does the republic of economists need transgressive authors?
7 The will to know: The praxis of economic maxims
8 The will to write: North and South Europe in transnational perspective
9 Industry’s geometry and geography
10 Materialising ideas: A chamber of agriculture
PART III: “A universal intercourse of traffic as is desired” Free ports, fairs, and institutional evolution in a global perspective
11 Free ports: The idol of all economists
12 Lasting and unlasting markets: From Medieval fairs to free ports
13 Institutional diversity: Free ports, the navigation act, and the drawback system
14 A Mediterranean silk road: Venice, Genoa, and Piedmont
15 Tyre and Carthage: Failed projects and new glocal fairs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
