Cargando…

Consumption as an investment /

This work explores the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies to the mainstream of e...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perrotta, Cosimo, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2004-
Colección:Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 71.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the legacy of the past; The Ancients and inner wealth; Patristics: end of the contempt for wealth and labour; Medieval dualism: poverty as an ideal; wealth as a practical goal; Italian humanism ignores economic development; From alms to human capital: the poor in sixteenth century Spain and England; Spain's unproductive consumption; Expanding production: a (fearful) hunger for goods; Productive and unproductive labour; Foreign trade: fostering productive consumption/productive labour.