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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    02 August 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139381994
    9781108053051
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381994
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.31kg, 236 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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    Renowned economic historian and clergyman William Cunningham (1849–1919) published this work in 1896, which is considered a companion volume to his seminal Essay on Western Civilisation. Educated at Edinburgh, Cambridge and Tübingen, Cunningham wrote widely on theology and economics. He was a Cambridge lecturer and fellow at Trinity, Professor of Economics at King's College London, a teacher at Harvard, a founding fellow of the British Academy, and President of the Royal Historical Society. Favouring historical empiricism over deductive theory, his work, labelled neo-mercantilist, was against laissez-faire and favoured economic regulation, social religion, and conservative incremental change. This book outlines these views as part of an analysis of the basic units of economic life - exchange, possessions, money, credit, selling, price, labour, trade, profit, interest, rent, wages - and how these interact within capitalism. The work strongly influenced contemporary thought and remains relevant in the historiography of economics.

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