Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy

Historians have traditionally turned to free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. Reinert argues that economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about imperialism, economics, industry, and reform in the early modern period.

• | Author: Sophus A. Reinert
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: October 17, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 456 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674061519
• | ISBN-13: 9780674061514