Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society

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Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers―Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue―laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to social, economic and political conditions of England. Wood's innovative study of these early Tudor thinkers, who upheld the status quo yet condemned widespread poverty and suffering, will interest historians, political scientists, and social and political theorists. 10.1525_9780520913448-fm 10.1525_9780520913448-toc 10.1525_9780520913448-001 10.1525_9780520913448-002 10.1525_9780520913448-003 10.1525_9780520913448-004 10.1525_9780520913448-005 10.1525_9780520913448-006 10.1525_9780520913448-007 10.1525_9780520913448-008 10.1525_9780520913448-009 10.1525_9780520913448-010 10.1525_9780520913448-011 10.1525_9780520913448-012 10.1525_9780520913448-013