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Worlds of Political Economy - Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Zusatztext 'Ranging widely and perceptively across national and imperial frontiers! the resulting studies provide compelling evidence of public (and popular) engagement with the myriad worlds of political economy that lay outside the narrow confines of economic science.' - Margot Finn! Reader in History at the University of Warwick 'By considering various forms of economic knowledge at work both inside nation states and across national boundaries! within the institutions of civil society as well as within state agencies! this volume recovers dimensions that are ignored in conventional histories of economic thinking.' - Donald Winch! Research Professor at the Graduate Centre for Research in the Humanities! University of Sussex Informationen zum Autor TIMOTHY ALBORN Lecturer in Modern British History, Lehman College, City University of New York, USASANDRA DEN OTTER Associate Professor of History, Queen's University, CanadaSHELDON GARON Professor of History, Princeton University, USAHEATH PERSON Lecturer in Economic History, University of California-Berkeley, USAEMMA REISZ Researcher, University of Cambridge, UKWILLIBALD STEINMETZ Professor of Modern History, Universitat Bielefeld, GermanyFRANCOIS-DAVID TODD Researcher, University of Cambridge, UKADAM TOOZE Lecturer in Modern German and European History, University of Cambridge, UKJOHN TOYE Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UKRICHARD TOYE Lecturer in History, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK Klappentext Worlds of Political Economy explores the meanings and workings of political economy as a source of knowledge and power in national, imperial, and transnational settings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Giving attention to the rich and contested social and cultural nature of political economy as a cluster of ideas and working practices, this volume brings together original essays on sociability, philanthropy and self-interest, imperial land and ecology, international development and public health, expert cultures and transnational diffusion. Zusammenfassung Worlds of Political Economy explores the meanings and workings of political economy as a source of knowledge and power in national, imperial, and transnational settings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Giving attention to the rich and contested social and cultural nature of political economy as a cluster of ideas and working practices, this volume brings together original essays on sociability, philanthropy and self-interest, imperial land and ecology, international development and public health, expert cultures and transnational diffusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation; M.Daunton & F.Trentmann Economics and Altruism at the Fin de Siècle; H.Pearson Before Free Trade: Commercial Discourse and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France; F-D.Todd The Political Economy of Empire, Freedom of Contract and 'Commercial Civilization' in Colonial India; S.Den Otter 'A Useful Lesson of Contentment': Pedagogies of Failure in Mid-Victorian Market Culture; T.Alborn 'Provident' Political Economy in Indian Forests; E.Reisz Competing Ideas of Freedom: Legal Disputes about Restraint of Trade in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914; W.Steinmetz Savings-Promotion as Economic Knowledge: Transnational Insights from the Japanese Experience; S.Garon The Crisis of Gelehrtenpolitik and the Alienated Economic Mind: Economists and Politics in Interwar Germany; A.Tooze Development and Disease: Public Health and the United Nations, c. 1945-1955; S.Amrith Economic Knowledge and Managerial Power at the United Nations: A Comparative View; J.Toye & R.Toye...

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Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation; M.Daunton & F.Trentmann Economics and Altruism at the Fin de Siècle; H.Pearson Before Free Trade: Commercial Discourse and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France; F-D.Todd The Political Economy of Empire, Freedom of Contract and 'Commercial Civilization' in Colonial India; S.Den Otter 'A Useful Lesson of Contentment': Pedagogies of Failure in Mid-Victorian Market Culture; T.Alborn 'Provident' Political Economy in Indian Forests; E.Reisz Competing Ideas of Freedom: Legal Disputes about Restraint of Trade in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914; W.Steinmetz Savings-Promotion as Economic Knowledge: Transnational Insights from the Japanese Experience; S.Garon The Crisis of Gelehrtenpolitik and the Alienated Economic Mind: Economists and Politics in Interwar Germany; A.Tooze Development and Disease: Public Health and the United Nations, c. 1945-1955; S.Amrith Economic Knowledge and Managerial Power at the United Nations: A Comparative View; J.Toye & R.Toye

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'Ranging widely and perceptively across national and imperial frontiers, the resulting studies provide compelling evidence of public (and popular) engagement with the myriad worlds of political economy that lay outside the narrow confines of economic science.' - Margot Finn, Reader in History at the University of Warwick
'By considering various forms of economic knowledge at work both inside nation states and across national boundaries, within the institutions of civil society as well as within state agencies, this volume recovers dimensions that are ignored in conventional histories of economic thinking.' - Donald Winch, Research Professor at the Graduate Centre for Research in the Humanities, University of Sussex

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