Worlds of Political Economy explores the meanings and workings of political economy as a source of knowledge and power in national, imperial, and transnational settings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Worlds of Political Economy explores the meanings and workings of political economy as a source of knowledge and power in national, imperial, and transnational settings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Giving attention to the rich and contested social and cultural nature of political economy as a cluster of ideas and working practices, this volume brings together original essays on sociability, philanthropy and self-interest, imperial land and ecology, international development and public health, expert cultures and transnational diffusion.

Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation
M.Daunton &
F.Trentmann
Economics and Altruism at the Fin de Siecle
H.Pearson
Before Free Trade: Commercial Discourse and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France
F-D.Todd
The Political Economy of Empire, Freedom of Contract and 'Commercial Civilization' in Colonial India
S.Den Otter
'A Useful Lesson of Contentment': Pedagogies of Fallure in Mid-Victorian Market Culture
T.Alborn
'Provident' Political Economy in Indian Forests
E.Reisz
Competing Ideas of Freedom: Legal Disputes about Restraint of Trade in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914
W.Steinmetz
Savings-Promotion as Economic Knowledge: Transnational Insights from the Japanese Experience
S.Garon
The Crisis of Gelehrtenpolitik and the Alienated Economic Mind: Economists and Politics in Interwar Germany
A.Tooze
Development and Disease: Public Health and the United Nations, c. 1945-1955
S.Amrith
Economic Knowledge and Managerial Power at the United Nations: A Comparative View
J.Toye &
R.Toye