Inventing the Modern Economy: Eighteenth-Century Europe

3 credits · Undergraduate

Economic transformation and the development of Enlightenment political economy in eighteenth-century Europe. New patterns of economic growth and foundations of modern capitalism: colonial commodities and slavery; 'Consumer Revolution'; credit and lending; and industrialization. Political, social, and economic responses by philosophers such as Mandeville, Montesquieu, the physiocrats, and Smith. [3] (INT)