Emily Erikson
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"Winner of the 2016 James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book, Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2016 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University" "Co-Winner of the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference" "Co-Winner of the 2015 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association" Emily Erikson is an assistant...
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In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. The seventeenth-century revolution in economic thought fundamentally reshaped the way economic processes have been interpreted and understood....