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• Winner of Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, European Society for the History of Economic Thought Winner, 2021 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society.
• Winner of Winner, 2021 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society.

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Calculation and Morality is a major contribution to the study of the French antislavery movement. A history of ideas, it concentrates on the ways abolitionists and their opponents used the tools of political economy. This focus illuminates one of the distinctive characteristics of France's national debate about colonial slavery. * John Garrigus, Journal of Modern History * An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question."" -Oeconomia

An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question. -Oeconomia

Calculation and Morality is a major contribution to the study of the French antislavery movement. A history of ideas, it concentrates on the ways abolitionists and their opponents used the tools of political economy. This focus illuminates one of the distinctive characteristics of France's national debate about colonial slavery. * John Garrigus, Journal of Modern History * An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question. -Oeconomia

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Caroline Oudin-Bastide is a socio-historian of slavery in the French West Indies. Her research is focused on the social functioning of slave society and the role of social beliefs concerning witchcraft. Philippe Steiner is professor of sociology at the university Paris-Sorbonne. His recent research is devoted to the economic sociology of markets, the relation between markets and morals and the history of social sciences. He is currently working on the economic sociology of festivities.

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