 Political economy and other idioms: French views on English development, 1815-48Roberto Romani The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2002, vol. 9, issue 3, 359-383 Abstract: This article investigates the role of political economy in the shaping of French views of British economic performance. It is argued that the potential of political economic for spreading a favourable interpretation of British development was not in fact realized until the end of the period considered. One reason for this was that earlier on, the image of economic Britain suffered from the legacy of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, with a link often being established between British pauperism and British aristocratic, 'feudal' society and government. Additionally, political economy struggled to gain ascendancy over other modes of social analysis, like Saint-Simonism and the science of administration, which either combined with it, thus affecting its potential for a favourable understanding of Britain, or directly challenged it. Keywords: French Political Economy; British Industrialization; Anglophobia; Saint-SIMON; Sismondi (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:9:y:2002:i:3:p:359-383 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/09672560210149215 Access Statistics for this article The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought is currently edited by José Luís Cardoso More articles in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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