 Beyond Trade: Mercantilist Ideas of Dependency, Value, and Transmutation and Justification of UnionAida Ramos
Chapter 3 in Shifting Capital, 2018, pp 43-60 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores how the writings of the three most influential mercantilist writers, Thomas Mun, Charles Davenant, and William Petty, supported the idea that Scotland was a “dependent” country that should join with England. Mun’s discussion of trade as the origin of value and authority demonstrates the notion that wealth is tied to one’s total volume of trade. Davenant’s work is pivotal in arguing for what makes a nation dependent and independent. His arguments regarding trade and national defense are applied to Scotland. Petty’s work is explored for its use of political arithmetic to justify particular policy positions and for the concept of transmutation, or how to create a union not by joining two nations together but by transforming the less productive into the more productive. Keywords: Thomas Mun; Charles Davenant; William Petty; Trade; Value; Dependency; Transmutation; Authority; Money; Mercantilism; Scotland; National defense; Transplantation; Political arithmetic (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-319-96403-4_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96403-4_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Palgrave Macmillan |
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