Regulating the British Economy, 1660�1850

Perry Gauci, Dr, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK

• Introduction, Perry Gauci; Chapter 1 Regulatory Inertia and National Economic Growth: An African Trade Case Study, 1660–1714, William Pettigrew; Chapter 2 A Proactive State? The Land Bank, Investment and Party Politics in the 1690s, Steve Pincus, Alice Wolfram; Chapter 3 Regulation and Rival Interests in the 1690s 1 I am grateful to the workshops’ participants and to Koji Yamamoto for comments on earlier drafts., Mark Knights; Chapter 4 Towards a British Political Economy: An Eighteenth-Century Scottish Perspective, Bob Harris; Chapter 5 Learning the Ropes of Sand: The West India Lobby, 1714–60, Perry Gauci; Chapter 6 Political Convention and the Merchant in the Later Eighteenth Century, Daeryoon Kim; Chapter 7 Bounties, the Economy and the State in Britain, 1689–1800, Julian Hoppit; Chapter 8 Investigation as a Prelude to Regulation: Information, Investigation and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Ian Barrett; Chapter 9 Facing Uncertainty: Markets, Norms and Conventions in the Eighteenth Century, Philippe Minard; Chapter 10 Regulating Wages in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century England: Arguments in Context, Joanna Innes; Chapter 11 The Transition to Factory Production in the English Wool Textile Industries: Individual and Family Desires for Labour Regulation, 1720–1850, Paul Minoletti; Chapter 12 Rent Seeking or Skill Creating? Apprenticeship in Early Industrial Britain, Jane Humphries;

'Undoubtedly, this volume is a very welcome addition to the historiography of economic and commercial regulation. It clearly identifies the complexity and variation of the regulatory process across a broad period... this is a major contribution to the historiography of regulation, political participation, parliamentary history and socio-economic tensions in employment, and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.' English Historical Review