Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Economics and the Union; 1.2 Mercantilism: Growth, Power, and Violence; 1.3 Mercantilism and Variants of Violence; 1.4 Shifting Capital; References; 2: The Political and Economic Contest and Context: Scotland and England Before the Union; 2.1 The Absent Presence: The Regal Union and English Supremacy; 2.2 Adventures in Mercantilism: The Company of Scotland and the Darien Colony; 2.3 Countermoves: The Act of Security and the Alien Act; References

3: Beyond Trade: Mercantilist Ideas of Dependency, Value, and Transmutation and Justification of Union3.1 Trade, Value, and Authority; 3.2 Trade, Defense, and Dependency; 3.3 Poverty and Population; 3.4 The Stock of Resources; 3.5 Reallocation and Transmutation; 3.5.1 Political Anatomy, Transmutation, and Transplantation; References; 4: Trick or Treaty: The Negotiation and Articles of Union in the Context of Mercantilist Ideas; 4.1 John Somers and the Mercantilist Reasoning of the Articles; 4.2 The Drafting of the Treaty and the Articles as Structural Violence

4.2.1 The Debate in the Scottish Parliament4.2.2 Protest; 4.3 Advantages and Disadvantages; References; 5: Balancing Act: The Equivalent, Political Arithmetic, and Mercantilist Structural Violence; 5.1 The Creation of the Equivalent; 5.2 The Equivalent and Political Arithmetic; 5.3 Perceptions of the Equivalent; 5.4 Counting the Costs: A Mercantilist Analysis of the Equivalent; 5.5 Uncompensated; References; 6: Shifting Capital; 6.1 Balance Sheet: Gains, Losses, and Rhetoric; 6.2 After the Union: Capital and the Capital; 6.3 Gains from Political Trade; 6.4 Human Capital; References7: Unintended Consequences: Scottish Political Economy as a Reaction to Mercantilism; 7.1 Theories of Growth, Wages, and Wellbeing; 7.1.1 Circulation and the Surplus: Theories of Growth; 7.1.2 Population, Poverty, and Wages; 7.2 New Balance; 7.3 Governance and Structural Violence; 7.4 Conclusion; References; Index