This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smithâ s theories is considered a central component of economic theory. This is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World.
This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smithâ s theories is considered a central component of economic theory. This is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christine Zabel is Director of the Early Modern Department at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France. She is currently completing a book on the economic and financial history of speculation, especially in early modern France. She is particularly interested in the history of political economy, financial mathematics, the history of knowledge and early modern republicanism(s). She is the author of the book Polis und Politesse. Der Diskurs über das antike Athen in England und Frankreich, 1630-1760 (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Search for Self Interest and the Problems with its Historicization Part 1: Creating, Inspiring and Calculating Self Interest 1. Improvement, Projecting, and Self Interest in the Hartlib Circle, c. 1640 1660 2. Reckoning Self Interest at the French Revolutionary Comité des Finances Part 2: Understanding, Teaching, and Learning about Self Interest 3. Commercial Sociability and the Management of Self Interest in Isaac de Pinto's Letter on Card Playing 4. The Concept of Self interest in Eighteenth Century Anthropology and Economic Theory. From Richard Cumberland to Adam Smith 5. The Problem of Embeddedness Revisited. Self Interest as a Challenge in Ethnographic and Historical Research Part 3: Embodying, Feeling and Practicing Self Interest 6. Commercial Desires in a Web of Interest. Dutch Discourses on (Self )interest, 1600 1830 7. Practical Knowledge of Self Interest: The Disembedding of Agency in Rural Areas, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 8. Pursuing Self Interest: Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth Century United States Part 4: Taming Self Interest, Self Interest as Limitation 9. Interest as an Enduring Political Problem in Early Modern France 10. Self Interest, Speculation, and Gambling in Nineteenth Century America 11. Against Self interest: The Codification of "Disinterestedness" as an Axiological Operator, in Religion, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Intellectual Professions
Introduction: The Search for Self Interest and the Problems with its Historicization Part 1: Creating, Inspiring and Calculating Self Interest 1. Improvement, Projecting, and Self Interest in the Hartlib Circle, c. 1640 1660 2. Reckoning Self Interest at the French Revolutionary Comité des Finances Part 2: Understanding, Teaching, and Learning about Self Interest 3. Commercial Sociability and the Management of Self Interest in Isaac de Pinto's Letter on Card Playing 4. The Concept of Self interest in Eighteenth Century Anthropology and Economic Theory. From Richard Cumberland to Adam Smith 5. The Problem of Embeddedness Revisited. Self Interest as a Challenge in Ethnographic and Historical Research Part 3: Embodying, Feeling and Practicing Self Interest 6. Commercial Desires in a Web of Interest. Dutch Discourses on (Self )interest, 1600 1830 7. Practical Knowledge of Self Interest: The Disembedding of Agency in Rural Areas, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 8. Pursuing Self Interest: Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth Century United States Part 4: Taming Self Interest, Self Interest as Limitation 9. Interest as an Enduring Political Problem in Early Modern France 10. Self Interest, Speculation, and Gambling in Nineteenth Century America 11. Against Self interest: The Codification of "Disinterestedness" as an Axiological Operator, in Religion, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Intellectual Professions
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