chapter 2 The prehistory of political economy

The birth of political economy did not take place at any precise time.
It was a very complex process evolving over centuries. We must look
back at least to the classical Greek period, and from there look ahead to
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which can be considered as the
culminating stage in the long formative process of our discipline.
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