Nathaniel Wolloch is an independent scholar from Israel, specializing in European intellectual history. He is the author of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (2006), and History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (2011).

'Clearly written and carefully organized, this book restores the subject of nature to the history of economics. It demonstrates in rich detail that economists may not have given much weight to nature as an independent source of wealth, but from the Greeks to the modern era they have been profoundly important in shaping our use of the natural world.'Donald Worster, University of Kansas, USAAuthor of "Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance"

• Preface List of Abbreviations PART I ATTITUDES TOWARD NATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO MERCANTILISM1 From Antiquity to the Renaissance 2 Mercantilism and Natural Resources PART II THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY3 Pre-Classical Enlightenment Developments 4 The Physiocrats and the Bread Riots 5 From Adam Smith to Classical Political Economy 6 John Stuart Mill and the Idea of Progress PART III MANAGING THE USE OF NATURE7 Managing Nature in the Enlightenment 8 Ricardo and Malthus on the Utilization of Nature 9 Jean-Baptiste Say and Other Contemporaries 10 John Stuart Mill’s Attitude toward Nature Epilogue: From Socialism to Modernity

Nathaniel Wolloch is an independent scholar from Israel, specializing in European intellectual history. He is the author of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (2006), and History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (2011).

'Clearly written and carefully organized, this book restores the subject of nature to the history of economics. It demonstrates in rich detail that economists may not have given much weight to nature as an independent source of wealth, but from the Greeks to the modern era they have been profoundly important in shaping our use of the natural world.'Donald Worster, University of Kansas, USAAuthor of "Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance"

• Preface List of Abbreviations PART I ATTITUDES TOWARD NATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO MERCANTILISM1 From Antiquity to the Renaissance 2 Mercantilism and Natural Resources PART II THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY3 Pre-Classical Enlightenment Developments 4 The Physiocrats and the Bread Riots 5 From Adam Smith to Classical Political Economy 6 John Stuart Mill and the Idea of Progress PART III MANAGING THE USE OF NATURE7 Managing Nature in the Enlightenment 8 Ricardo and Malthus on the Utilization of Nature 9 Jean-Baptiste Say and Other Contemporaries 10 John Stuart Mill’s Attitude toward Nature Epilogue: From Socialism to Modernity

Nathaniel Wolloch is an independent scholar from Israel, specializing in European intellectual history. He is the author of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (2006), and History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (2011).

'Clearly written and carefully organized, this book restores the subject of nature to the history of economics. It demonstrates in rich detail that economists may not have given much weight to nature as an independent source of wealth, but from the Greeks to the modern era they have been profoundly important in shaping our use of the natural world.'Donald Worster, University of Kansas, USAAuthor of "Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance"

• Preface List of Abbreviations PART I ATTITUDES TOWARD NATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO MERCANTILISM1 From Antiquity to the Renaissance 2 Mercantilism and Natural Resources PART II THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY3 Pre-Classical Enlightenment Developments 4 The Physiocrats and the Bread Riots 5 From Adam Smith to Classical Political Economy 6 John Stuart Mill and the Idea of Progress PART III MANAGING THE USE OF NATURE7 Managing Nature in the Enlightenment 8 Ricardo and Malthus on the Utilization of Nature 9 Jean-Baptiste Say and Other Contemporaries 10 John Stuart Mill’s Attitude toward Nature Epilogue: From Socialism to Modernity