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- William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic
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- 2010-02-08
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- Publication Year
- 2010
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
- Publication Name
- William Petty : and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic
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William Petty (1623-1687) was a key figure in the English colonization of Ireland, the institutionalization of experimental natural philosophy, and the creation of social science. Examining Petty's intellectual development and his invention of "political arithmetic" against the backdrop of the European scientific revolution and the political upheavals of Interregnum and Restoration England and Ireland, this book provides the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Petty based on a thorough examination not only of printed sources but also of Petty's extensive archive and pattern of manuscript circulation. It is also the first fully contextualized study of what political arithmetic--widely seen as an ancestor of modern social and economic analysis--was originally intended to do. Ted McCormick traces Petty's education among French Jesuits and Dutch Cartesians, his early work with the "Hartlib Circle" of Baconian natural philosophers, inventors, and reformers in England, his involvement in the Cromwellian conquest and settlement of Ireland, and his engagement with both science and the politics of religion in the Restoration. He argues that Petty's crowning achievement, political arithmetic, was less a new way of analyzing economy or society than a new "instrument of government" that applied elements of the new science--a mechanical worldview, a corpuscularian theory of matter, and a Baconian stress on empirical method and the transformative purposes of natural philosophy--to the creation of industrious and loyal populations. Finally, he examines the transformation Petty's program of social engineering, after his death, into an apparently apolitical form of statistical reasoning.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199547890
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9780199547890
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Publication Name
William Petty : and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
368 Pages
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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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Hb103.P5m35 2009
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"Well written, often displaying an enviable turn of phrase and an eye for telling quotations from original sources, while McCormick also has a real gift for expounding complex topics in a lucid way."--American Historical Review, "Well written, often displaying an enviable turn of phrase and an eye for telling quotations from original sources, while McCormick also has a real gift for expounding complex topics in a lucid way." --American Historical Review, Well written, often displaying an enviable turn of phrase and an eye for telling quotations from original sources...gives us a new way of looking at Petty and is likely to stimulate fresh thought about the ideas of his period more generally., [A] fine book...one of the most original and illuminating publications on the histories of both thought and Ireland in many years.
Table of Content
Introduction: William Petty and Political Arithmetic1: From Romsey to Paris2: The Making of a Virtuoso3: Surveying Ireland4: Science and Policy in the Restoration5: The Transmutation of the Irish6: Corpuscles, Colonies, and Kingdoms7: Political Arithmetic in Circulation8: Death and AfterlifeConclusion: From Political Arithmetic to Political EconomyBibliographyIndex, Introduction: William Petty and Political Arithmetic1. From Romsey to Paris2. The Making of a Virtuoso3. Surveying Ireland4. Science and Policy in the Restoration5. The Transmutation of the Irish6. Corpuscles, Colonies, and Kingdoms7. Political Arithmetic in Circulation8. Death and AfterlifeConclusion: From Political Arithmetic to Political EconomyBibliographyIndex
Copyright Date
2009
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Economics / General, Political, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General, Economics / Theory
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2009-020071
Dewey Decimal
330.15/3092 B
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Philosophy
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