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Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Economic History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53309-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-53308-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 13, 2020

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Chapter 1Cameralism, Mercantilism and the Making of the Modern Economic Mind

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 1 –49

[This chapter introduces and summarizes the argument of the book on how mercantilism and its continental variant(s) Cameralism represented foundational cornerstones of capitalism and economic modernity. This transcends traditional historians’ debates on industrial and trade policy (which I will...
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Chapter 2Debating Capitalism and Economic Modernity in Early Modern Europe

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 51 –79

[This chapter reviews historians, economists’ and other scholars’ debates on markets, mercantilism and state formation since the Renaissance with specific respect to economic policies known under the “mercantilist” and “Cameralist” label, and their contributions made to the unfolding and...
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Chapter 3Early Modern Economic Lives

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 81 –93

[This chapter provides a concise overview on early modern European economic lives—the groundwork or empirical pre-text for subsequent analyses of political economic and economic discourse relating to the mercantilist spectrum: trade, urban industry and the improvement of economic lives by a...
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Chapter 4Early Modern Political Economy and the Market: A Life on the Margins?

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 95 –107

[As this chapter argues, since the early modern period economic discourse increasingly moved away from a purely agrarian-focused household or demesne management literature towards incorporating wider ideas and conceptions about markets, economy, industry and international competition. In many...
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Chapter 5Capitalism and Freedom in Pre-modern Thought

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 109 –128

[This chapter studies the somewhat darker origins of liberalism by situating continental economic literature during the age of capitalism’s ascendancy (1450s–1850s) within the idiosyncratic conditions provided on the ground in early modern Europe. Most European regions, as seen in Chapter 4,...
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Chapter 6Creating Freedom, Constructing “Laissez-Faire”

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 129 –136

[This chapter builds up on this, by mainly focusing on some key ideas of the mercantilists and Cameralists of how markets could be positively stimulated and the material environment productively improved, given all the hindrances to economic freedom discussed in the previous chapters. These ideas...
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Chapter 7Strange Origins of Capitalism

Rössner, Philipp Robinson

Pages: 137 –167

[This chapter builds upon preceding chapters, working towards a conclusion. Its first section discusses an under-rated example of British mercantilism in practice positively promoting eighteenth-century capitalism and economic development in one of the smaller (and most dynamic) nations of the...

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