Intellectual History of Economic Normativities
The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativit
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MIKKEL THORUP
Intellectual History of Economic Normativities
Mikkel Thorup Editor
Intellectual History of Economic Normativities
Editor Mikkel Thorup Institute for Culture and Society Aarhus, Denmark
ISBN 978-1-137-59415-0 ISBN 978-1-137-59416-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59416-7
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction: Profiting from Words Mikkel Thorup 2
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The Greed of Gold: Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen
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Trade is a Kind of Warfare: Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of Josiah Child Mathias Hein Jessen
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The Wedel-Jarlsberg-Controversy: Defending the Existing Order against the Reform-Movement in Late Eighteenth-Century Denmark Eva Krause Jørgensen The Emergence of the Concept “Political Economy” Nicolai von Eggers
6 Equilibrium, Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
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Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution Jonas Ross Kjærgård
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Political Economy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain Thomas Palmelund Johansen
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The Crisis Is the Social Organism’s Mastering of Itself: A Conceptual and Economic History of the Problem of Crisis Bue Rübner Hansen
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10 When Finance Became Productive, Scientific and Liberating: A Moral History of Financial Speculation Christian Olaf Christiansen
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11 The Economics of Starvation: Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune Møller Stahl
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12 The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administration in Egypt and Nigeria, 1882–1914 Casper Andersen
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13 Talking the Creative Economy i
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