Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index.
Merchants and the body politic -- Gerard de Malynes: Institutio Mercatoris Christiani -- Edward Misselden and the "natural freedom" of trade -- Thomas Mun and the finite Zeitgeist -- Harmony and the "balance of trade" -- Mechanically minded -- The number, weight, and measure of Sir William Petty -- Sir Josiah Child: what price money? -- John Locke: nineteen shillings do not a pound make -- Accounting for economics -- In the balance -- Sir Dudley North: merchants and markets -- Nicholas Barbon and the quality of infinity -- Charles Davenant and the brave new world