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Sophus Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 438, $61. ISBN 978-0-674-06151-4.

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Sophus Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 438, $61. ISBN 978-0-674-06151-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2016

Loïc Charles
Loïc Charles*
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University of Paris 8 and Institut National d’Études Démographiques
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 410 - 413
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References

1 The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979).

2 “It is by following the maxims of M. Child which have been for 50 years, just as he wished, the basis and the ruler of the administration of trade in England that the English nation has not only regained all the trades that she had lost, but has also increased its power and its influence, on the sea as well as on the continent, to the level we see it today.” In Simone Meyssonnier, ed., Traité sur le commerce de Josiah Child suivis des Remarques de Jacques Vincent de Gournay (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008), p. 37.