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Commerce, Culture, & Liberty - Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith (Paperback)
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Commerce, Culture, & Liberty - Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith (Paperback)
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This collection of thirty-seven readings (from thirty-three
writers) brings together some of the most significant pre-Adam
Smith writings on the political and cultural dimensions of
capitalism.
To modern readers, these seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
discussions of commerce and economic life in general are surprising
because they are so closely integrated to moral and cultural
issues. Though we may have forgotten how extensively such issues
were once discussed, it is uncanny what a contemporary ring many of
these issues have. Part of the value of this book is in reminding
us that many of our own concerns are not without precedent and
earlier reflection.
The selections come both from now-unfamiliar authors who were
influential in their own time, as well as from such well-known
writers as Rousseau, Defoe, Fielding, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.
The essays emphasize the human meaning of the market; they were
selected to provide a sense of the range of opinion that prevailed
on the broader significance of the market economy before it became
a pervasive feature of modern life.
"Commerce, Culture, and Liberty" presents rich and provocative
writings on the relationship between commerce and luxury, virtue,
nobility, agriculture, the state, religion, civility, and liberty.
The book restores the voice of a rich body of reflections on the
larger import of the birth of the modern economy that has been
largely silent in academic discourse on the topic. Moreover, it
presents significant though hard-to-find writings by a host of
well-known authors, including a little-known essay by Rousseau. It
also presents important writings that have been preempted by Adam
Smith, writings that say as much about our age as about the age in
which they were written.
Henry C. Clark is Visiting Professor in the Clemson Institute for
the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University. He has published two
books and several articles, mainly on the French and Scottish
Enlightenments.
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