Britain's Political Economies

Britain's Political Economies

Parliament and Economic Life, 1660-1800

Hoppit, Julian (University College London)

Cambridge University Press

05/2017

314

Dura

Inglês

9781107015258

15 a 20 dias

The first comprehensive account of how government legislation affected economic life, and how economic interests across Britain used parliament for their own benefit in the period following the Glorious Revolution. Britain's Political Economies transforms our understanding of how political power influenced Britain's precocious economic development in the period.
Part I. Contours: 1. Introduction; 2. The legislative revolution; 3. Legislating economically; 4. The local, national, and imperial; 5. Information, interests, and political economy; Part II. Cases: 6. The political economy of the fens; 7. The political economy of wool; 8. The political economy of bounties; 9. Refiguring the British fiscal state; 10. Conclusion; Appendix 1: legislation subject scheme; Appendix 2: specific economic legislation by English and Scottish counties, 1707-1800.
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