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This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and
political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in
Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology
and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way
extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted
into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather
than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual
orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways
in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial
crisis - especially those where politicians, commercial interest
groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the
tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social
stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific
problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by
highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that
produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from
mercantilism to liberalism - the shift from protectionism to free
trade - is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments
in economic thought.
This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and
political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in
Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology
and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way
extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted
into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather
than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual
orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways
in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial
crisis - especially those where politicians, commercial interest
groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the
tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social
stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific
problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by
highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that
produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from
mercantilism to liberalism - the shift from protectionism to free
trade - is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments
in economic thought.
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