Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith /
"Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorist...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Commercial sociability : the Jean-Jacques Rousseau problem
- Commercial sociability : the Adam Smith problem
- Histories of government : which comes first, judges or the law?
- Histories of government : republics, inequality, and revolution?
- Political economy : markets, households, and invisible hands
- Political economy : nationalism, emulation, and war.