Screen LibraryHistory of Economic Rationalities : Economic Reasoning as Knowledge and Practice Authority /
This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities take...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy,
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52815-1 |
| Summary: |
This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes place in the meeting with other regimes of thought, values, and moral discourses. The book offers new and refreshing insights, ranging from the development of early economic thinking to economic aspects and concepts in the works of classical thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Karl Ma |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (IX, 140 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319528151 |
| Index Number: | B63 |
| CLC: | C02 |
| Contents: | About the Authors -- 1. Introduction; Jakob Bek-Thomsen, Christian O. Christiansen, Stefan G. Jacobsen, Mikkel Thorup -- 2. From Permutation of Commodities to the Praise of Doux Commerce. Changes in Economic Rationality in Early Modern Times; Catherine Secretan -- 3. The Nutrition of a Commonwealth: On Hobbes s Economic Thought; Laurens van Apeldoorn -- 4. Circulation of Blood and Money in Leviathan Hobbes on the Economy of the Body; Christoffer Basse Eriksen -- 5. Profits and Morals in Leon Battista Alberti s I libri della famiglia; Jakob Bek-Thomsen -- 6. The Meanings of Work in John Locke |