Robert Fredona is an Associated Fellow of the Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions at the York Management School, UK. A scholar of Medieval and early modern legal, political, business, and economic history, he has previously taught at Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as been Medici Fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar in Harvard University’s Department of History, USA.Sophus A. Reinert is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School, USA. A student of political economy, he works on the long histories of capitalism, globalization, development, and business-government relations from the Renaissance to today’s emerging markets.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Genoa, Liguria, and the Regional Development of Medieval Public Debt.- Chapter 3. Angelo degli Ubaldi and the Gulf of the Venetians: Custom, Commerce, and the Control of the Sea before Grotius.- Chapter 4. Capitalism and the Special Economic Zone, 1590–2014.- Chapter 5. Theatrum Œconomicum: Anders Berch and the Dramatization of the Swedish Improvement Discourse.- Chapter 6. Gulliver’s Travels, Party Politics, and Empire.- Chapter 7. Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719–1769.- Chapter 8. The Economics of the Antipodes: French Naval Exploration, Trade, and Empire in the  19th Century.- Chapter 9. A ‘Surreptitious Introduction’: Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late 19th Century Bengal and Burma.- Chapter 10. A Place in the Sun: Rethinking the Political Economy of German Overseas Expansion and Navalism before the Great War.- Chapter 11. Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles after 100 Years.- Chapter 12. On a Certain Blindness in Economic Theory: Keynes’ Giraffes and the Ordinary Textuality of Economic Ideas.- Chapter 13. Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: Institutional Law and Economics in the US.- Chapter 14. The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals.

Robert Fredona is an Associated Fellow of the Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions at the York Management School, UK. A scholar of Medieval and early modern legal, political, business, and economic history, he has previously taught at Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as been Medici Fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar in Harvard University’s Department of History, USA.Sophus A. Reinert is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School, USA. A student of political economy, he works on the long histories of capitalism, globalization, development, and business-government relations from the Renaissance to today’s emerging markets.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Genoa, Liguria, and the Regional Development of Medieval Public Debt.- Chapter 3. Angelo degli Ubaldi and the Gulf of the Venetians: Custom, Commerce, and the Control of the Sea before Grotius.- Chapter 4. Capitalism and the Special Economic Zone, 1590–2014.- Chapter 5. Theatrum Œconomicum: Anders Berch and the Dramatization of the Swedish Improvement Discourse.- Chapter 6. Gulliver’s Travels, Party Politics, and Empire.- Chapter 7. Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719–1769.- Chapter 8. The Economics of the Antipodes: French Naval Exploration, Trade, and Empire in the  19th Century.- Chapter 9. A ‘Surreptitious Introduction’: Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late 19th Century Bengal and Burma.- Chapter 10. A Place in the Sun: Rethinking the Political Economy of German Overseas Expansion and Navalism before the Great War.- Chapter 11. Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles after 100 Years.- Chapter 12. On a Certain Blindness in Economic Theory: Keynes’ Giraffes and the Ordinary Textuality of Economic Ideas.- Chapter 13. Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: Institutional Law and Economics in the US.- Chapter 14. The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals.

Robert Fredona is an Associated Fellow of the Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions at the York Management School, UK. A scholar of Medieval and early modern legal, political, business, and economic history, he has previously taught at Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as been Medici Fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar in Harvard University’s Department of History, USA.Sophus A. Reinert is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School, USA. A student of political economy, he works on the long histories of capitalism, globalization, development, and business-government relations from the Renaissance to today’s emerging markets.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Genoa, Liguria, and the Regional Development of Medieval Public Debt.- Chapter 3. Angelo degli Ubaldi and the Gulf of the Venetians: Custom, Commerce, and the Control of the Sea before Grotius.- Chapter 4. Capitalism and the Special Economic Zone, 1590–2014.- Chapter 5. Theatrum Œconomicum: Anders Berch and the Dramatization of the Swedish Improvement Discourse.- Chapter 6. Gulliver’s Travels, Party Politics, and Empire.- Chapter 7. Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719–1769.- Chapter 8. The Economics of the Antipodes: French Naval Exploration, Trade, and Empire in the  19th Century.- Chapter 9. A ‘Surreptitious Introduction’: Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late 19th Century Bengal and Burma.- Chapter 10. A Place in the Sun: Rethinking the Political Economy of German Overseas Expansion and Navalism before the Great War.- Chapter 11. Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles after 100 Years.- Chapter 12. On a Certain Blindness in Economic Theory: Keynes’ Giraffes and the Ordinary Textuality of Economic Ideas.- Chapter 13. Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: Institutional Law and Economics in the US.- Chapter 14. The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals.