Early British Economics from the XIIIth to the middle of the XVIIIth century

by Beer,Max

• ISBN13: 9780415313223
• ISBN10: 0415313228
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

First published in 1938

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(15)
The Schoolmen and Their Problems	15	(11)
Beginning of Scholasticism in the British Isles
Commerce and Ethics
Growth of Trade and Commerce
Conflict between Ethics and Economics
Alexander of Hales (Alensis)	26	(13)
Community and Private Property
Trade and Commerce
Aristotle and the Schoolmen on Money
Usury
Ricardus De Media Villa	39	(6)
Community and Liberty
Lawfulness of Trade and Commerce
Difference between Gain and Interest
John Duns Scotus	45	(7)
Remarks on his Life and Work
Origin of Property and State
Trade and Commerce
Usury
The Legacy of the Schoolmen	52	(8)
Preparing the Way for Modern Times
William of Ockham
Influence on Modern Views
A History of Early British Economics
The Age of Mercantilism: General View	60	(22)
Definition of Mercantilism
Importance of Coin and Bullion
The Mechanism of Bullionist Policy
The Ethics of the Angevin Trade Legislation
The Two Periods of Mercantilism
Sixteenth Century Economics	82	(48)
Price Revolution and Money Difficulties
The ``Dearth'' and Debasement of the Coinage
John Hales on the Nature of Money
Influx of West Indian Treasure
Delivering Money by Exchange
Gerard Malynes and Thomas Milles against Exchangers
Excess of Imports
The Prime Cause of the Economic Difficulties
The Quantity Theory of Money: John Locke
Balance of Trade	130	(28)
Mediaeval and Modern Conception of Trading
Rise of the term ``Balance of Trade''
Origin of Some Ideas of the Balance of Trade
Thomas Mun and Edward Misselden
Influence of the Balance of Trade Doctrine
Importance of Manufacture	158	(29)
Arts and Crafts as a Source of Treasure
Beginning of the Protective System
Sir William Petty on Money, Value, and International Trade
Petty and his Contemporaries on Labour, Population, and Wages
Conflict between Crown and Merchants
Recapitulation	187	(9)
Meaning of the Balance of Trade
Mercantilism and Foreign Politics
Transition to Liberal Economics	196	(32)
Introductory Remarks
Manufacture, Credit, Banking, and Free Trade
The Anti-Mercantilists: Child, Barbon, Davenant
The Free-Trade Maxims of Dudley North
The Economics of the Free-Trade Doctrine
Jacob Vanderlint, Matthew Dekker, and Joseph Massie
David Hume
Retrospect: British Economics in 1750	228	(15)
Index	243