Includes index.

Population : modes of seventeenth-century demographic thought / Ted McCormick -- Labor : employment, colonial servitude, and slavery in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Abigail Swingen -- Money : Hartlibian political economy and the new culture of credit / Carl Wennerlind -- Epistemology : expertise and knowledge in the world of commerce / Thomas Leng -- Natural history and improvement : the case of tobacco / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson -- Cameralism : a german alternative to mercantilism / Andre Wakefield -- Corporations : humanism and Elizabethan political economy / Henry S. Turner -- Companies : monopoly, sovereignty, and the British East Indies / Philip J. Stern -- The church : Anglicanism and the nationalization of maritime space / Brent S. Sirota -- Pirates and smugglers : political economy in the red Atlantic / Niklas Frykman -- Polycentric states : the Spanish reigns and the failures of mercantilism / Regina Grafe -- Financial markets : the limits of economic regulation in early modern England / Anne L. Murphy -- Consumption : commercial demand and the hallenges to regulatory power in eighteenth-century Ireland / Martyn J. Powell -- War and peace : trade, international competition, and political economy / John Shovlin -- Neutrality : Atlantic shipping in and after the Anglo-Dutch wars / Victor Enthoven -- Rivalry : greatness in early modern political economy / Sophus A. Reinert -- Afterword : from mercantilism to macroeconomics / Craig Muldrew.