ABSTRACT

The essays in this volume explore and discuss the process of dissemination of economic ideas among Europe's less developed countries and regions, as well as the interaction between economic thought and economic policy in different times and places during the nineteenth century.

The comparative approach adopted sheds new light on the course of economic development in Europe's less developed countries in the nineteenth century and the role played by political economy. Amongst a host of others, the topics covered include:

  • economic policy in Denmark
  • monetary and trade policy in Norway
  • the influence of the German Historical School in Finland
  • land Reform and the abolition of serfdom in Russia and in Poland

With contributions that disclose important insights into national traditions in economic thought and policy, and the diffusion of ideas in Europe, this work will be essential reading for all scholars of the history of economic thought.

chapter 3|18 pages

The emergence of an independent Norwegian economic policy

Some notes on current views and empirical findings

chapter |18 pages

5B.N. Chicherin

Some liberal aspects of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia

chapter 6|13 pages

Liberal ideas and Slavonic Community

Tomasz Potocki’s programme for Poland

chapter 7|24 pages

Resisting liberalism: theorizing backwardness and

Theorizing backwardness and development in Rumania before

chapter 8|16 pages

Ottoman economic thought and economic policy in transition

Rethinking the nineteenth century

chapter 11|24 pages

Political economy in Italy: competition and civil

Competition and civil society in the Milanese school, 1750–1850

chapter 12|21 pages

How are we to become like them? Political economy

Political economy as a political agenda in early nineteenth- century Portugal

chapter 13|15 pages

Friedrich List and Oliveira Marreca: some odd

Some odd coincidences

chapter 14|23 pages

The western periphery: Irish agriculture and Irish

Irish agriculture and Irish political economy in the nineteenth century