Research Catalog

Title

Shifting capital : mercantilism and the economics of the Act of Union of 1707 / Aida Ramos.

Author

Ramos, Aida

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xi, 143 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London. While the general public balked at the perceived unfairness of the treaty, the majority of Scottish ministers seemed satisfied with its terms. This book offers an explanation of how that outcome came about. By examining the influence of a particular strain of mercantilist thought, Ramos demonstrates how the negotiations preceding the passage of the Act of Union were shaped by ideas of value, wealth, trade and power, and, accordingly, how the model of positive balance was used to justify the necessity of the Act. Utilizing contemporary evidence from the English and Scottish ministers involved, this book explores alternative arguments regarding the Union, from before 1707 and in early Scottish political economy, thus highlighting the differing economic and political views that have persisted between England and Scotland for centuries. With twenty-first century discontent leading to the Scottish independence referendum and arguments that persist in the wake of the Brexit decision, Ramos produces timely research that investigates ideas of protectionism that feed into mercantilist economic thought.

Series Statement

• Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought
• Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

• Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
• Palgrave pivot.

Subject

• Scottish Union (1707)
• 1600-1714
• Economic history
• Scotland > History > Union, 1707
• Great Britain > History > Anne, 1702-1714
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 17th century
• Great Britain
• Scotland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The political and economic contest and context: Scotland and England before the union -- Beyond trade: mercantilist ideas of dependency, value, and transmutation and justification of union -- Trick or treaty: the negotiation and articles of union in the context mercantilist ideas -- Balancing act: the equivalent, political arithmetic, and mercantilist structural violence -- Shifting capital -- Unintended consequences: Scottish political economy as a reaction to mercantilism.

Call Number

JFD 19-2399

ISBN

• 9783319964027
• 331996402X
• 9783319964034 (canceled/invalid)
• 3319964038 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1079206770

Author

Ramos, Aida, author.

Title

Shifting capital : mercantilism and the economics of the Act of Union of 1707 / Aida Ramos.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.

Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1714

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783319964034

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2399