The Economic Turn

Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

Steven Kaplan, Sophus Reinert

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Anthem Press
16 January 2019

Economic history

Series: Anthem Other Canon Economics

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of Francois Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy.

The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.

Edited by: Steven Kaplan, Sophus Reinert
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781783088553
ISBN 10: 1783088559
Series: Anthem Other Canon Economics
Pages: 792
Publication Date: 16 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven L. Kaplan is the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History Emeritus at Cornell University, USA. His books include Bread, Politics and Political Economy (1976/2015), Farewell Revolution (1995), Le Pain maudit (2008) and Raisonner sur les bls (2017). Sophus A. Reinert is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, USA. His books include Translating Empire (2011) and The Academy of Fisticuffs (2018).

Reviews for The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

A major contribution to the history of political economy. Its twenty-one full-size chapters provide an insight into some of the most notable work done in the last decades in the field, but also develop and engage with a thesis of its own. — Koen Stapelbroek, Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Helsinki, Journal of Modern History (2020)