“Political Economy”: The Making of a North-South Planet

Cameron Gordon

Chapter Chapter 4 in Many Possible Worlds, 2023, pp 79-115 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Industrial Revolution gave birth not just to a radical change in material circumstances. It also gave birth to a new intellectual current, based in England, which became known as “Political Economy”. The dramatic changes taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth century English and European economy and society demanded explanations, and men like Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill sought to provide them. Their efforts led to the creation of the field of “Classical Economics” which provides the origins of the discipline of economics, as we know it today.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9281-0_4

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