![]() Moneyīarbon's understanding of money contained both innovative and traditional elements. ![]() 1 īefore I discuss Barbon's rejection of seventeenth-century balance of trade orthodoxy, a brief review of the positions taken in his three pamphlets- An Apology for the Builder (1685), A Discourse of Trade (1690), and a Discourse concerning Coining the New Money Lighter (1696)-on other economic issues of the day (e.g., money, value, interest, and wealth) may help uncover the major influences on his thought. Such scholars as Peter Buck (1977) and James Tully (1993) have offered welcome correctives that uncover the many influences (economic, political, and intellectual) on these writers. Much work has been done in recent decades on the intellectual context of seventeenth-century economic writers, but some of this work is limited to applying such broad labels as Cartesian rationalism, natural law, or Baconian empiricism to the work of particular economic writers without considering the almost overwhelming complexity of the seventeenth-century intellectual mix. Nicholas Barbon's attack on the organic analogy underlying seventeenth-century balance of trade theory. ![]() This article attempts to fill in a possible lacuna in the last, namely, to suggest plenitude as the most likely intellectual source of Dr. To construct an intellectual history of economics, one must consider the comparative virtues of the internalist, sociological, and contextual perspectives. Nicholas Barbon and the Quality of Infinity Andrea Finkelstein In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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