Regulating the British Economy, 1660¿1850 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gauci, Perry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. They range broadly over Britain and its empire and also consider Britain's exceptionality through comparative studies. Together, the book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317068730
• Artikelnr.: 44875688

Autorenporträt

Perry Gauci, Dr, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Perry Gauci; Chapter 1 Regulatory Inertia and National Economic Growth: An African Trade Case Study
1660-1714
William Pettigrew; Chapter 2 A Proactive State? The Land Bank
Investment and Party Politics in the 1690s
Steve Pincus
Alice Wolfram; Chapter 3 Regulation and Rival Interests in the 1690s 1 I am grateful to the workshops' participants and to Koji Yamamoto for comments on earlier drafts.
Mark Knights; Chapter 4 Towards a British Political Economy: An Eighteenth-Century Scottish Perspective
Bob Harris; Chapter 5 Learning the Ropes of Sand: The West India Lobby
1714-60
Perry Gauci; Chapter 6 Political Convention and the Merchant in the Later Eighteenth Century
Daeryoon Kim; Chapter 7 Bounties
the Economy and the State in Britain
1689-1800
Julian Hoppit; Chapter 8 Investigation as a Prelude to Regulation: Information
Investigation and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Ian Barrett; Chapter 9 Facing Uncertainty: Markets
Norms and Conventions in the Eighteenth Century
Philippe Minard; Chapter 10 Regulating Wages in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century England: Arguments in Context
Joanna Innes; Chapter 11 The Transition to Factory Production in the English Wool Textile Industries: Individual and Family Desires for Labour Regulation
1720-1850
Paul Minoletti; Chapter 12 Rent Seeking or Skill Creating? Apprenticeship in Early Industrial Britain
Jane Humphries;