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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013 (Author)
Other Authors: Kapossy, Bela, 1965- (Editor), Sonenscher, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.