... violent passions, while George Caffentzis discusses Hume’s attitude to metallic and paper money in terms of the distinction between “fi ction” and “counterfeit” found elsewhere in Hume’s writings. Two papers deal with “luxury”: Christopher Berry focuses on the moral standing of luxury spending...

...-interest, and passions, both of these groups nevertheless sought a moral order that was binary. In other words, they wanted to understand the world in terms of good and evil—of what kind of commercial behavior was permissible and what was not. The difference, unsurprisingly, was over what each group...

... to an emphasis on inalienable natural rights helped the late Cameralists build a political theory of an economic state, which relied on the motivating forces of legitimate self-interest and passions. The late Cameralists redescribed happiness in terms of freedom, thereby accomplishing a shift from Cameral...

... of strangers and distant acquaintances, an individual would generally restrain the more self-indulgent and excessive passions and be more composed than in front of family and close friends. Frequent exposure to strangers fosters the habit of propriety—the basis of moral behavior. Commerce increases one's...

...Gordon F. Davis Correspondence may be addressed to Gordon F. Davis, Linacre College, Oxford,OX1 3JA, U.K.; e-mail: gordon.davis@linacre.ox.ac.uk . Duke University Press 2003 Baier, Annette C. 1991 . Persons and the Wheel of Their Passions. In A Progress of Sentiments: Re ections...

... Elster, 213 -34. New York: Russell Sage. Epstein, L. G., and J. A. Hynes. 1983 . The Rate of Time Preference and Dynamic Economic Analysis. Journal of Political Economy 91 : 611 -35. Frank, R. H. 1988 . Passions within Reason:The Strategic Role of the Emotions . New York: Norton. Goldman...

....” l1 The capacity for reason, which plays its complicated duet with the passions, permeates the process of socialization, but must be rooted in presocialized human nature. The second, and for our purposes more interesting, aspect of primal nature is the array of instincts, drives, emotions...

... in society opens, in the Ranks, with the following statement: Of all our passions, it should seem that those which unite the sexes are most easily affected by the peculiar circumstances in which we are placed, and most liable to be influenced by the power of habit and education. Upon...

... wants arise continu- ously, faster than the old wants are satisfied. We remain continuously un- satisfied while increasing our levels of consumption” (p. 508). According to Kern, Aristotle would address this problem as follows: The natural limit to satisfaction of the passions is determined...

... the human heart, and . . . reduce all its motions, balances, and weights to that one principle and foundation of a cool and deliberate selfishness.”g In reply he says: “Whoever looks narrowly into the affairs of it [human nature] will find that passion, humour, caprice, zeal, faction, and a thousand...

... and Virtue . London:Darby, Bettesworth. ____. [1728] 1971 . An Essay on the Nature and the Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on the Moral Sense . Edited by Bernard Peach. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press. Iltis, Carolyn. 1971 . Leibniz and the Vis Viva Controversy. Isis 62.1 : 21 -35...

...-to which Boland keeps returning; it is in striving for that goal that his passion lies, but, as is often the case with passion, the unpassionate are left to wonder what is going on. Maybe the answer is in this book and I am simply blinded by my lack of passion. Maybe Boland’s attempt to answer...

... . Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hirschman , Albert O. 1977 . The passions and the interests: political arguments for capitalism before its triumph . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Hume , David . 1976 . An enquiry concerning the principles of morals [EPM] . Edited by Charles W. Hendel...

... that I should change my views. It is the third goal-to develop a complete and consistent individualistic version of microeconomics-to which Boland keeps returning; it is in striving for that goal that his passion lies, but, as is often the case with passion, the unpassionate are left to wonder...

... for what offices of goodness and humanity his sta- tion may allow; to store his mind with useful knowledge, and with the grand maxims which conduce to a virtuous life; to acquire virtuous habits, and a power of restraining all the lower appetites and selfish passions, which may oppose them...

... in the Theory of Moral Sentiments), but mostly in a technical sense, to designate a category of passions (those passions which inter- est us with regard to our well-being, halfway between social and unsocial passions). 24. Theory of Moral Sentiments, II, ii, 1, §2: 78; IV, 1, §10: 184; VII, ii, 2, §13...

... the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a consti- tutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two...

... on Money, Mercantilism, and the System of Natural Liberty. In Money and the Enlightenment , edited by Daniel Carey. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. Hirschman, Albert O. [1977] 1997 . The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph . Princeton: Princeton University...

... on Adam Smith , edited by Skinner Andrew S. Wilson Thomas , 524 – 39 . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Hicks J. R. 1937 . “Mr. Keynes and the ‘Classics.’” Econometrica 5 ( April ): 147 – 59 . Hirschman Albert O . 1977 . The Passions and the Interests: Political...

... nature, a controlled and internally consistent system. This ‘ ‘ economy of man’s nature’’21 is, according to Butler, composed of “several appetites, passions, and particular affeotions. . . . They are restraints upon, and are in proportion to each other.’722Up to this point Butler agrees...