TY - JOUR
AU - Roncaglia, Alessandro
AB -  The book is an expanded, revised, and updated edition of an Italian book by the same author, L'economia e la scienza: il rinnovamento della cultura economica tra Cinque e Seicento (Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2010). It thus distils the fruits of a lengthy labour on the centuries‐long gestation of political economy, at a time when what is now a clearly specified academic discipline was intermingled with all kinds of reflections and discussions on human beings, human societies, and nature. The book thus constitutes an exploration of cultural history rather than economic history or the history of economic analysis, though the author himself is an economic historian—the occasional references to the historical background are consistently to the point—and historians of economic analysis should nevertheless find much of interest in the cultural background it provides. It focuses attention on three long‐term interrelated historical processes underlying the origins of political economy: ‘the transformation of Western culture produced by humanism, the Renaissance and transoceanic geographical exploration’; the growth of ‘scientific knowledge of nature’; and a ‘value change within the Western mercantile class’ (pp. 9, 10, 12). The scope of this meticulous account of methodological developments in investigations of man, society, 
TI - Germano Maifreda, From oikonomia to political economy: constructing economic knowledge from the Renaissance to the scientific revolution (Farnham: Ash ...
JF - Economic History Review
DO - 10.1111/1468-0289.12067_15
DA - 2014-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/germano-maifreda-from-oikonomia-to-political-economy-constructing-MorJpTltAN
SP - 596
EP - 597
VL - 67
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -