Book DescriptionThis collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when success in international trade became a matter of the military озйгш and political survival of nations Today, it would be called "economic nationalism," and in this book Hont connects the commercial politics of nationalism and globalization in the eighteenth century to theories of commercial society and Enlightenment ideas of the economic limits of politics.  Discove2005 г ISBN 0674010388.