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...lively conversation about theater and economic practice. Approaching mercantilism as an ongoing debate about the virtues of transnational finance and trade (rather than a defined period or commercial policy), Harris shows how deeply that debate engaged contemporary theories of disease. Infection in particular, he argues, was a hybrid set of concepts that drew equally on late humoralism and emergent ideas about invasion by "foreign bodies" articulated in early mercantilist writings. Figures of infection linked a "double helix of medical and mercantile signification" in which the foreign was reimagined as pathological (2-3). In fact the study resembles a triple helix. Successive chapters braid the work of six economic theorists with medical discussions of contagion. A third strand of analysis explores...

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