“It Was Their Business to Know”: British Merchants and Mercantile Epistemology in the Eighteenth Century
This article explores the history of commercial epistemology during the first half of the eighteenth century in Britain. During that period, questions about the character of commerce as a field of knowledge—whether it was a simple or complex, how it related to commercial “interest,” and especially w...
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Duke University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116288 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5010-345X |