Thesis abstract / Blurb -- Preface: economic thought and the intellectual legacy of colonialism -- Acknowledgments -- William Petty : biographical and historical background -- Petty and the colonialist roots of development economics -- Petty's economic thought and the fiscal-military state --...

Introduction -- The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy -- ‘Mr Morice is said to appear at the head’: The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company -- ‘That ever-memorable year of epidemical infatuation’: Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble...