Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.

'The Political Econony of Sentiment' situates changes in the nature of money & the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal but critical to the larger epistemological & psychological changes associated with the reconstruction of value.