Search Results for philosophical and commercial history

...: the philosophical and the commercial. Following the work of Jennifer Pitts ( 2017 : 147–51) on Smith's position in the history of historiography, there is now an important discussion in the specialist Smith studies literature about the degree to which he practiced both (see also, as precursors of this position...

... by Duke University Press 2017 Adam Smith astronomy morality commercial society Fontenelle Copernican system gravity References Adkins Gregory Matthew . 2000 . “When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61 ( 3 ): 433 – 52...

... . Mercantilism as a rent-seeing society, economic regulation in historical perspective . College Station. Evensky , Jerry 1987 . ‘The two voices of Adam Smith: moral philosopher and social critic.’ History of Political Economy 19 . 3 ( Fall ): 447 -68. Forbes , Duncan 1975 . ‘Sceptical...

... with providing a complete rendering of each philosopher’s intellectual project, Berry instead looks for overlap, syntheses, and correspondences between the ways that the most famous Scottish intellectuals understood, theorized, and envisioned commercial society. This is an extraordinarily difficult project...

... to as early as the fifth century B.C. by Herodotus. Athenian banking in the fourth century B.C. was so “disembedded” as to put in question the Polanyi Thesis (Cohen 1991). Clearly, philosophical and mercantilist writings about sixteenth- and seventeenth- century commercial activities...

... References Evensky , Jerry . 1987 . The Two Voices of Adam Smith: Moral Philosopher and Social Critic HOPE 19 . 3 : 447 -68. Evensky , Jerry . 1989 . The Evolution of Adam Smith's Views of Political Economy HOPE 21 . 1 : 123 -45. Evensky , Jerry . 1992a . The Role of Community...

...: Duke University Press, 1986. Pp. xviii + 21 1. $35. This book aims to provide a philosophical approach to the doctrine of free trade on the grounds that the approach through economic and social history does not suffice to illuminate the central contribution of the Scots. “The heart...

... 233-34, 237. 1 2 History of Political Economy 22:l (1990) a well-articulated set of views on whether a commercializing economy tends to add to its stock of moral capital in a more effective fashion than did earlier societies...

... Hume, Philosopher-Economist. In David Hume: Many-sided Genius . Edited by K. M. Merrill and R. W. Shahan. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Salvatore , Dominick. 1993 . International Economics . 4th ed. New York: Macmillan. Schumpeter , Joseph A. 1954 . History of Economic...

... . Berry Christopher J. 2010 . “Adam Smith's Moral Economy.” Kyoto Economic Review 79 ( 1 ): 2 – 15 . ———. 2012 . “Adam Smith's ‘Science of Human Nature.’” History of Political Economy 44 ( 3 ): 471 – 92 . ———. 2013 . The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment...

...R. A. Gonce Roger Backhouse. A history of modern economic analysis . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. xii, 520. $34.95. © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 504 History of Political Economy 20:3 (1988) viewed as administratively accountable for policy decisions by the various...

... of Economics: The Philosophical Roots of 18th Century Economic Thought . Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar. Dalrymple , J. 1757 . Essay toward a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain . London: A. Millar. Ferguson , A. [ 1767 ] 1967. An Essay on the History of Civil Society...

.... Adair , D. 1966 . Experience Must Be Our Only Guide: History, Democratic Theory, and the United States Constitution. In The Reinterpretation of Early American History: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Pomfret , edited by R. A. Billington, 129 -48. Berkeley and Los Angeles. Allen , W. R. 1976...

... Platonism, and Smith’s familiarity with this philosophic tra­ dition is amply demonstrated by his essay on “The History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics,” which was revised from his inaugural lecture for his chair in moral philosophy at Glasgow University (Smith 1980, 118-20; Lowry 1993...

... and the First and Second Discourses . New Haven : Yale University Press . Schwegman Jeffrey . 2010 . The “System” as a Reading Technology: Pedagogy and Philosophical Criticism in Condillac’s Traité des systêmes . Journal of the History of Ideas 71.3 : 387 – 409 . Senellart Michel...

... to for- malize political economy, but also of the political and philosophical forces 1. Lloyd is absent in most histories of economic thought (he is not mentioned, for instance, in any of the following: Ferguson 1950; Bell 1953; Letwin 1963; Negishi 1989; Ekelund and Hébert 1997; Robbins 1998...

... -20. ____. 1992 . Adam Smith: Scottish Philosopher as Political Economist. Historical Journal 35.1 : 91 -113. ____. 1996 . Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Witztum, Amos. 1997 . Distributive...

... enterprise. Thus one gets the impres- sion that Hamilton’s financial genius is attributable not to his own ability to translate commercial experience into the public realm, but rather to the ability of a brace of Scottish philosophers to derive principles...

... civilization throughout history have been quick to point out. Basing a society on self-interest might provide “a virtuous underpinning to the logic of acquisitive, self-interested commercial society,” but it can also end up working in alliance with the basest of the faculties. “For Aris- totle,” as Pack...

... traveled from Arabic into the vernacular and eventually into Latin. This translation effort was the route that brought Arabic achievements such as the Turkish philosopher, Al-Farabi’s gloss on Plato’s Republic to the attention of the Latin West (see Baeck 1994, 108-9, 119). 540 History...