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Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World - A Plea for Ego? (Paperback)
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Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World - A Plea for Ego? (Paperback)
Series: Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
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This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest
that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories
is considered a central component of economic theory. Having in the
twentieth century become one of the key-features of rational choice
models, and thus is seen as an idealized trait of human behavior,
self-interest has, despite Albert O. Hirschman's pivotal analysis
of self-interest, only marginally been historicized. A
historicization(s) of self-interest, however, offers new insights
into the concept by asking why, when, for what reason and in which
contexts the notion was discussed or referred to, how it was
employed by contemporaries, and how the different usages developed
and changed over time. This helps us to appreciate the various
transformations in the perception of the notion, and also to
explore how and in what ways different people at different times
and in different regions reflected on or realized the act of
considering what was in their best interest. The volume focuses on
those different usages, knowledges, and practices concerned with
self-interest in the modern Atlantic World from the seventeenth to
twentieth centuries, by using different approaches, including
political and economic theory, actuarial science, anthropology, or
the history of emotions. Offering a new perspective on a key
component of Western capitalism, this is the ideal resource for
researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic
history in the modern Atlantic World.
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