Author: W G SheltonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349165034
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Dean Tucker and Eighteenth-Century Economic and Political Thought
Author: W G SheltonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349165034
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800
Author: J. G. A. PocockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521574983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Author: Murray Newton RothbardPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164776
Category : Austrian school of economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Author: Mary Elizabeth FissellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.
Revolution, Economics and Religion
Author: Anthony Michael C. WatermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521394473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Professor Waterman analyses the story of the 'intellectual repulse of revolution', and describes the ideological alliance of political economy and Christian theology after 1798.
Foreign Trade and the National Economy
Author: Leonard GomesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349089923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Author: Gregory M. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108801986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants. Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy stands as the most comprehensive study to date of this fascinating subject. In addition to providing rigorous textual analysis, Collins unearths previously unpublished manuscripts and employs empirical data to paint a rich historical and theoretical context for Burke's economic beliefs. Collins integrates Burke's reflections on trade, taxation, and revenue within his understanding of the limits of reason and his broader conception of empire. Such reflections demonstrate the ways that commerce, if properly managed, could be an instrument for both public prosperity and imperial prestige. More importantly, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy raises timely ethical questions about capitalism and its limits. In Burke's judgment, civilizations cannot endure on transactional exchange alone, and markets require ethical preconditions. There is a grace to life that cannot be bought.
The Creation of the Modern World
Author: Roy PorterPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393048728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. Porter reveals how the monumental transformation of thinking in Great Britain influenced wider developments elsewhere. of color illustrations.
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Author: Frederick G. WhelanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317573803
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century and hence on what is usually taken to be the core period of the Enlightenment, a somewhat problematic term. Covering topics such as property, contract and resistance theory, religious establishments, the law of nations, the balance of power, demography, and the role of unintended consequences in social life, Frederick G. Whelan convincingly conveys the diversity--and creativity--of the intellectual engagements of even a limited set of Enlightenment thinkers in contrast to dismissive attitudes, in some quarters, toward the Enlightenment and its supposed unitary project. Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2 contains six in-depth studies of eighteenth-century political thought, including both normative issues and examples of Enlightenment social science, including international relations and law, the problem of double standards, political economy, demography, and the causes of imperial decline. The central figure is David Hume, with substantial attention to William Robertson, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Malthus, and others.
David Hume's Political Economy
Author: Margaret SchabasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134362501
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This collection of twelve new essays by distinguished scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of economics is one of the first book-length studies of Hume‘s political economy.