The politics of economic activity

This title confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics. It proposes a robust, incisive alternative definition of politics: the mobilisation of values to change or reproduce the institutions that orientate, and indeed make possible, economic activity. Drawing upon constructivist strands of institutionalism, political sociology, and industrial economics, this definition generates an analytical framework for understanding the 'political work' that constantly orientates the behaviour of both firms and public authorities

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue: Evocation -- ONE: Provenances -- TWO: Oeconomia rerum et verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire -- THREE: The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich -- West Indian Interlude -- FOUR: The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court -- Interlude in the Laboratory -- FIVE: Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars -- Epilogue: Projection -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Evocation -- One. Provenances -- Two. Oeconomia Rerum et Verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire -- Three. The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich -- West Indian Interlude -- Four. The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court -- Interlude in the Laboratory -- Five. Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars -- Epilogue. Projection -- Bibliography -- Index

This volume examines the fundamental nature of the relationship between politics and economics, and proposes a new definition of politics; the mobilization of values to change or reproduce the institutions that orientate, and indeed make possible, economic activity.