David Hume's Political Economy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schabas, Margaret; Wennerlind, Carl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hume's Political Discourses (1752) won immediate acclaim and positioned him as an authoritative figure on the subject of political economy. This volume of thirteen new essays definitively establishes the central place of political economy in Hume's intellectual endeavor, as well as the profound and far-reaching influence of his theories on Enlighte

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134362493
• Artikelnr.: 38247876

Autorenporträt

Margaret Schabas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of two monographs, A World Ruled by Number (Princeton, 1990) and The Natural Origins of Economics (Chicago, 2005). She is also co-editor of Oeconomies in the Age of Newton (2003), and the author of over 30 articles. Carl Wennerlind is Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College. He is the author of numerous articles on David Hume's political economy that have appeared in History of Political Economy, Hume Studies, and Journal of Political Economy. His most recent piece on Hume garnered best article awards from the History of Economics Society and the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction2. The Scottish Contexts for Hume's Political-economic
Thinking 3. The Emergence of Hume as a Political Economist: A Biographical
Sketch 4.Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus'
Slippers) 5. Manners and Morals: David Hume on Civility, Commerce, and the
Social Construction of Difference 6. Hume's Framework for a Natural History
of the Passions7. An Artificial Virtue and the Oil of Commerce: A Synthetic
View of Hume's Theory of Money 8. Temporal Dimensions in Hume's Monetary
Theory 9. Fiction or Counterfeit?: Hume's Philosophical Politics of Money
10. David Hume and Canadian Paper Money 11. French 'New Politics' and the
Dissemination of David Hume's Political Discourses on the Continent,
1750-177012. Hume's Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate 13.
Constitution and Economy in David Hume's Enlightenment 14. The 'Rich
Country-Poor Country' Debate Revisited