... 36.3 : 445 –74. Defoe, Daniel. [1719] 2007 . Robinson Crusoe . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Diderot, Denis, ed. 1751 . Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers . Vol. 1 . Paris: Briasson. ———. 1971 . Le rêve de d'Alembert. In vol. 8...

... be more apt. Wesleyan University WILLIAMJ. BARBER The World of Defoe. By Peter Earle. New York: Atheneum Press, 1977. Pp. 353. $12.50. Daniel Defoe (1660?-173 1) was a polygraph of extraordinary range, imagi- nation, and fecundity. Known for his...

... acknowledged. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe neoclassical economics utility theory homo economicus References Bastiat Frédéric . 1851 . Harmonies économiques. 2nd ed. Paris : Guillaumin & Cie . Binswanger Hans Christoph...

.... Wesleyan University WILLIAMJ. BARBER The World of Defoe. By Peter Earle. New York: Atheneum Press, 1977. Pp. 353. $12.50. Daniel Defoe (1660?-173 1) was a polygraph of extraordinary range, imagi- nation, and fecundity. Known for his histories, moral instructors...

...-distance trade through means such as the oceans, winds facilitating long-distance shipping, and coasts furnished with natural harbors is affirmed by the Protestant dissenter (and political economist) Daniel Defoe and John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. In turn the English economic pamphleteer Gerard...

...- enteenth century, Thomas Mun, Sir John Cook, Sir Matthew Hale, John Collins, Sir Josiah Child, Sir Walter Harris, Charles Davenant, and John Cary, and, in the eighteenth century, Daniel Defoe, Jacob Vanderlint, George Berkeley, Francis Hutcheson, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Matthew Decker, Malachy...

... Gervaise, George Berkeley, Jacob Vanderlint, Joshua Gee, Charles King, Sir Mathew Decker, and Daniel Defoe. This makes his Essay on the nature of trade in general an even more remarkable performance than appears from its contents. In this book, Antoin Murphy not only summarises the general thrust...

... common, because it expresses the exact method by which land had been valued for many years—on the basis of the yearly rent that could be earned. (The title character in Daniel Defoe’s novel Roxana ([1724] 1931) values her suitors in a similar fashion.) John Locke ([1691] 1989), for instance, presents...

..., capitalist economy. This is why Mandeville’s Fable of the bees seemed to be pungently relevant. It is no surprise that the analytically meaningful part of Mandeville, the necessity of consumption in a capitalist economy, had already been clearly stated by both Nicholas Barbon and Daniel Defoe around...

..., and on the Means to Restore Both. Begun in the Year 1739 . London : Printed for John Brotherton . [ Defoe Daniel ]. 1713 . A General History of Trade . 4 vols . London : Printed for J. Baker . Dudley Christopher . 2013 . “Party Politics, Political Economy, and Economic Development...

... Child, John Cary, John Bellers ([ 16991 1972,4,6),Daniel Defoe, and Jean-Frangois Melon ([1734] 1742, 9:126-27) were in favor of higher wages. Child, while describing the wretched conditions of the poor in England, reversed the deeply rooted prejudice that idleness derived from the luxury...

...–1959, 2d ed. Cambridge. Defoe , Daniel 1971 . A tour through the whole island of Great Britain (1724–1726). Abridged and edited by Pat Rogers. Baltimore. Devine , T. M. 1976 . ‘The colonial trades and industrial investment in Scotland, c. 1700–1815.’ Economic History Review, 2d...

..., but Paul pockets only half-a- dollar, the other half dollar having been lost in the increased cost of manufacturing, just as if it had been thrown into the sea [1980, 1591. Bastiat used Daniel Defoe’s classic character Robinson Crusoe to parody the protectionist argument that imports would...

... of That Celebrated Writer Charles D'Avenant Relating to the Trade and Revenue of En gland, the Plantation Trade, the East-India Trade, and African Trade . Collected and revised by Sir Charles Whitworth. 5 vols. Farnborough, Hants, U.K.: Gregg International Press. Defoe, Daniel. [1728] 1927 . A Plan...

... since the Renaissance (E. Reinert 2019: chap. 2). From the early 1600s onward, terms and phrases such as management, improvement, and preserving (of resources) became more prominent, as did the proverbial projects and schemes, known from Daniel Defoe, Becher, or Justi (Wakefield 2009; Smith...

... McCulloch’s Selected Tracts (1856) to find that considerable awareness of the workings of self-interest in the mar- ket is shown by Daniel Defoe in Giving Alms no Charity or by the anonymous author of An Apology for P~wnbroking.~It will be shown below that my interpretation of what Adam Smith...

... of the South Sea House . London. Kress-Goldsmith Microfilm Collection. Cobbett, W., ed. 1811 . The Parliametary History of England . Vol. 9 . London. David, Paul A. 2000 . Path Dependence, Its Critics, and the Quest for “Historical Economics.” Working paper, Stanford University. Defoe, Daniel...

... or because the subject is judged a marginal figure (e.g., Daniel Defoe is conventionally regarded as much less important in the history of economics than in English intellectual life more generally). At the other extreme, Ricardo, Edgeworth, Walras, Smith, Marshall, Marx, and Keynes have entries...

... is Bloomsbury. He wrote the [Economic] Consequences of the Peace. —Virginia Woolf, letter to Benedict Nicholson (24 August 1940) Like Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, Tom Wolfe, and many other...

.... Decker , Matthew 1744 . An Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade . … London: In McCulloch 1859. Defoe , Daniel 1726–27 . The Complete British Tradesman . 2 vols. Reprinted, New York: A. Kelley, 1969. Defoe , Daniel 1728 . Plan of the English Commerce...