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Tocqueville's Political Economy (Paperback)
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Tocqueville's Political Economy (Paperback)
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major
political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings
also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life
and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's
Political Economy, Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a
highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that
still has much to teach us today. Through careful readings of
Tocqueville's two major books and many of his other writings,
Swedberg lays bare Tocqueville's ingenious way of thinking about
major economic phenomena. At the center of Democracy in America,
Tocqueville produced a magnificent analysis of the emerging
entrepreneurial economy that he found during his 1831-32 visit to
the United States. More than two decades later, in The Old Regime
and the Revolution, Tocqueville made the complementary argument
that it was France's blocked economy and society that led to the
Revolution of 1789. In between the publication of these great
works, Tocqueville also produced many lesser-known writings on such
topics as property, consumption, and moral factors in economic
life. When examined together, Swedberg argues, these books and
other writings constitute an interesting alternative model of
economic thinking, as well as a major contribution to political
economy that deserves a place in contemporary discussions about the
social effects of economics.
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