Commercial Crisis and Change in England 1600-1642 - A Study in the Instability of a Mercantile Economy

Klappentext A classic study of the development and changing fortunes of commerce in seventeenth-century England. Zusammenfassung A classic study of the development and changing fortunes of commerce in seventeenth-century England. Barry Supple explores the causes and consequences of the economic crises in the forty years prior to the Civil War through the lenses of economic thought and policy as well as monetary! industrial and commercial questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Years of Crisis: 1. The recovery from stagnation, 1600-1614; 2. The Cockayne project, 1614-1617; 3. The depression years, 1620-1624; 4. Currency manipulation and the crisis of the early 1620's; 5. Plague and politics, 1625-1632; 6. The declining years, 1632-1642; Part II. Years of Change: Real and Monetary Factors: 7. A changing economy: the old and the new; 8. Monetary instability, 1600-1642; Part III. The Approach to Economics: 9. Economic thought; 10. The government and the economy; Appendixes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: B. E. Supple, B.e. Supple
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2007
• EAN: 9780521044592
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04459-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Economic history, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700