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Andrea Finkelstein, Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth Century English Economic Thought (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000) pp. ix, 381, $49.50. ISBN 0 472 11143 4.

Brewer, Anthony - In: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23 (2001) 03, pp. 392-394

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THE CONCEPT OF AN AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS, FROM PETTY TO SMITH

BREWER, ANTHONY - In: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33 (2011) 04, pp. 487-505

<italic>Everyone has to eat, so agriculturalists must produce enough to feed themselves and the rest of the population. This statement is trivially obvious but making it explicit mattered to the early development of economic thinking. Many important economic writers of the period (Petty, Cantillon,...</italic>

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