Martin Daunton is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Trinity Hall. He has published widely on all aspects of modern social and economic history. His most recent publications include Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850 (Oxford, 1995) and Just Taxes: The Politics of British Taxation, 1914-1979 (Cambridge, 2002). Frank Trentmann is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck College, London, and is the director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme (ESRC and AHRB). He is the editor of Paradoxes of Civil Society (Oxford and New York, 2000/2003) and (with Mark Bevir) of Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge, 2004).

'Ranging widely and perceptively across national and imperial frontiers, the resulting studies provide compelling evidence of public (and popular) engagement with the myriad worlds of political economy that lay outside the narrow confines of economic science.' - Margot Finn, Reader in History at the University of Warwick 'By considering various forms of economic knowledge at work both inside nation states and across national boundaries, within the institutions of civil society as well as within state agencies, this volume recovers dimensions that are ignored in conventional histories of economic thinking.' - Donald Winch, Research Professor at the Graduate Centre for Research in the Humanities, University of Sussex

• Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge, Practices and Contestation; M.Daunton & F.Trentmann Economics and Altruism at the Fin de Siècle; H.Pearson Before Free Trade: Commercial Discourse and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France; F-D.Todd The Political Economy of Empire, Freedom of Contract and 'Commercial Civilization' in Colonial India; S.Den Otter 'A Useful Lesson of Contentment': Pedagogies of Failure in Mid-Victorian Market Culture; T.Alborn 'Provident' Political Economy in Indian Forests; E.Reisz Competing Ideas of Freedom: Legal Disputes about Restraint of Trade in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914; W.Steinmetz Savings-Promotion as Economic Knowledge: Transnational Insights from the Japanese Experience; S.Garon The Crisis of Gelehrtenpolitik and the Alienated Economic Mind: Economists and Politics in Interwar Germany; A.Tooze Development and Disease: Public Health and the United Nations, c. 1945-1955; S.Amrith Economic Knowledge and Managerial Power at the United Nations: A Comparative View; J.Toye & R.Toye