from feudal to modern business and economics. british population increases
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From Feudal to Modern Business and Economics
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British population increases
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Feudalism
Class-based.
Property ownership severely restricted.
Serfdom and slavery.
Aristocracy’s attitudes toward work and business.
Clergy’s attitudes toward work and business.
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Jesus: “one thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” (Luke 18:22)
St. Paul: “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have…” (Hebrew 13:5)
St. Augustine: “Business is in itself an evil.”
St. Jerome: “A man who is a merchant can seldom if ever please God.”
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Philosophical Revolution:
Mind/body integration.
Moral/practical integration.
Business becomes a worthy profession.
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Agricultural revolutionScience applied to agricultureSoil maintenance: fertilizers and manureMaximizing crops: fallow, turnips and clover, rotation, Selective breedingFences and enclosuresTransportation: specialization and trade across wider distancesPreservation methodsMore crops so can keep animals alive during winter
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Robert Bakewell (1725–1795)
Selective breeding
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James Watt
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1880 tractor
Food production
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Transportation:
“In pre-steam days it had cost $5 to carry 100 pounds up to Louisville [from New Orleans]. It had dropped to $2 by
1830, and soon fell to 25 cents.”
(Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern, HarperCollins 1991, p. 196)
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Hargreave's spinning-jenny (1770)
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Food, clothing, transportation:Costs downQuantity upQuality up
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Infant death rates
London, England
1730-49: 74.5% 1810-29: 31.8%
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Philosophical revolution: Attitudes toward work and business
Agricultural revolution: Scientific farming
Industrial revolution: Engineering and machines
Financial revolution: Money, banking, capital
Political-economy revolution: Free trade
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Financial revolution
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Traditional attitudes:
Ezekiel 18: He who “lends at interest, and takes increases; shall he then live? He shall not live … he
shall surely die.”
Deuteronomy 23:19-20: “You shall not lend upon interest to your brother … to a foreigner you may
lend upon interest …”
Jesus versus the moneylenders
Shylock and The Merchant of Venice
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Mercantilism versus proto-free-markets
Licenses.Tariffs.Currency controls.
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Adam Smith, On the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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