Britain's Political Economies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-316-64990-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these acts, revealing how government affected economic life in this critical period prior to the Industrial Revolution, and how economic interests across Britain used legislative authority for their own benefit. Through a series of case studies, he shows how ideas, interests, and information influenced statutory action in practice. Existing frameworks such as 'mercantilism' and the 'fiscal-military state' fail to capture the full richness and structural limitations of how political power influenced Britain's precocious economic development in the period. Instead, finely grained statutory action was the norm, guided more by present needs than any grand plan, with regulatory ambitions constrained by administrative limitations, and some parts of Britain benefiting much more than others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoppit, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Contours: 1. Introduction; 2. The legislative revolution; 3. Legislating economically; 4. The local, national, and imperial; 5. Information, interests, and political economy; Part II. Cases: 6. The political economy of the fens; 7. The political economy of wool; 8. The political economy of bounties; 9. Refiguring the British fiscal state; 10. Conclusion; Appendix 1: legislation subject scheme; Appendix 2: specific economic legislation by English and Scottish counties, 1707-1800.

Über Autor(innen)

Hoppit, Julian
Julian Hoppit is Astor Professor of British History at University College London, where he has taught for over thirty years. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, and he has held visiting fellowships at the Huntingdon Library California and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. Previous publications include Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 2002) and A Land of Liberty? England 1689-1727 (2002). He edited the Historical Journal from 2008 to 2012 and he is the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016-19) to research 'Public Finances and the Union, 1707-1978'.