ABSTRACT
Paul Dockes continues in the tradition in this follow-up to the account of William Petty spatial-economic thought in his 1969 monograph, though he now extends his discussion into Petty's political economy as whole, setting it firmly in its colonial context. Dockes 2013 writes aptly of the relation between the English and French literatures on political economy in early modern times as a 'zigzag'. In what follows, then, some current research and discussion will be surveyed first regarding Petty's spatial-economic thought and secondly regarding the influence on his thinking of the natural philosophy of his time. Indeed, Cronin 2014 has called for nothing less than an "alternative genealogy of the history of political economy" that traces it back to its colonialist origins, which are revealed so graphically in Petty's maps and writings. International aspects of Petty's perspective on economic concepts remain poorly explored in the existing literature, lack of attention to the issue of colonialism being the outstanding example.
