A01=Neal Wood
Author_Neal Wood
becon
brinklow
capitalism
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crowley
dudley
early tudor
economic history
economic philosophy
economic policy
economic theory
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fortescue
incipient capitalism
industrial evolution
labor
laissez faire
latimer
lever
more
nonfiction
philosophy
political economy
political scientists
political thinkers
politics
poverty
social concern
social conditions
starkey
state economics
thomas smith
tudor england
Product details
- ISBN 9780520081451
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Neal Wood is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at York University, Toronto. His books include Cicero's Social and Political Thought (1988), John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism (1984), and The Politics of Locke's Philosophy (1983), all published by California.
