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Harmony and the balance : an intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic thought / Andrea Finkelstein.

Author/creator Finkelstein, Andrea, 1949-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Descriptionviii, 381 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Merchants and the body politic -- Gerard de Malynes: Institutio Mercatoris Christiani -- Edward Misselden and the "natural freedom" of trade -- Thomas Mun and the finite Zeitgeist -- Harmony and the "balance of trade" -- Mechanically minded -- The number, weight, and measure of Sir William Petty -- Sir Josiah Child: what price money? -- John Locke: nineteen shillings do not a pound make -- Accounting for economics -- In the balance -- Sir Dudley North: merchants and markets -- Nicholas Barbon and the quality of infinity -- Charles Davenant and the brave new world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index.
LCCN 99050841
ISBN0472111434

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Joyner General Stacks HB103 .F56 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold