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Idols of Nations : Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism /

Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers -- Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke -- read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith -- who took the title of his Wealt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Boer, Roland, 1961- (Autor), Petterson, Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hugo Grotius : rewriting the narrative of the fall
  • John Locke and the trouble with Adam
  • Adam Smith the storyteller
  • The lust and hunger of Thomas Malthus