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Economy. Before the end of the 16th century Beverley had successfully claimed remission of taxation because of the town's comparative poverty, and a further discharge was granted in 1626. The decayed condition of the town cannot have been improved by outbreaks of plague in 1604 and 1610.
Professor Wrightson discusses the remarkable growth of the British economy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He examines the changed context of stable population and prices; regional agricultural specialization; urbanization; the expansion of overseas trade both with traditional European trading partners and with the ...
- The Enlightenment
- David Hume and Economics
- Adam Smith and The Enlightenment
- Conclusion
The Enlightenment proved to be one of the most revolutionary periods in world history as it transformed the way in which societies viewed the relationship between the ruler and the ruled. The movement first began in Great Britain in the late seventeenth century, which was experiencing profound political change, and then spread to France and the Ger...
Among the most important writers of the British Enlightenment was Scottish thinker David Hume (1711-1776). Two of Hume’s most important works were Essays and The History of Englandand although neither of those works, or any of Hume’s writings for that matter, never focused specifically on international relations or macroeconomics, his thoughts on t...
Adam Smith (1723-1790) synthesized and improved on many of David Hume economic theories to create an economic worldview that would influence global economics until the present. In Smith’s most famous work, The Wealth of Nations, and in his earlier yet no less important, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he argued that economic freedom was intertwined...
There is little doubt that Enlightenment philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith indelibly influenced the modern economic world. Their critique of the mercantile economic system, particularly the idea of government-subsidized monopolies and imperialism, influenced political and economic leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...
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For much of the 17th century, Barbados was a far more powerful economic engine than Virginia or Massachusetts. The English conquest of Jamaica in 1655 set the conditions for an even more economically dynamic model. Economic growth in British colonies hinged on obtaining laborers.
Dec 31, 2001 · It is titled "The economy of expanding Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Chapters in this volume cover topics like transport and trade; European economic institutions and the new world and chartered companies; and Colonial settlement and its labor problems.
Most historians agree that the colonial economy grew slowly but steadily during the first half of the eighteenth century, stimulating a corresponding rise in the volume of imported British goods.
We show that the English economy saw rapid and significant structural change during the seventeenth century in line with Broadberry et al.’s account. Our data allow us to be more precise on the timing of this development.
