Overview

"""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 pre-empted by Adam Smith, writings that say as much about our age as about the age in which they were written."

Full Product Details

9780865973787

Table of Contents

Reviews

Contemporary opinion in Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as shown in the anthology Commerce, Culture, and Liberty reveals a wealth of 'modern' ideas about economic life and commercial culture. Editor Henry C. Clark did not select readings that reflect a single doctrine. Yet, most of these authors in their time appear to have participated in the same conversation about the same general topics. Itinerario 2005 Deftly compiled and edited for contemporary readers by Henry C. Clark, Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings On Capitalism Before Adam Smith is an amalgamation of significant writings published before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) impacted the world's perceptions on economics. A wide variety of authors ranging from Voltaire, to Ferdinando Galiani, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contribute to this absorbing source of pre-Adam Smith perceptions and judgments about economic matters prior to the birth of the American nation as a capitalist beacon to the nations of the world. Wisconsin BookwatchJuly 2003 It turns out that Smith did not in fact emerge naked from the sea foam with his 1776 classic Wealth of Nations to found capitalism. The 37 essays and articles, about a quarter translated from French, reveal the thinking about commerce by some well known and less well known writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and particularly highlight the moral and ethical contexts and concerns that have fallen by the wayside since. Reference & Research Book News August 2003

Contemporary opinion in Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as shown in the anthology Commerce, Culture, and Liberty reveals a wealth of 'modern' ideas about economic life and commercial culture. Editor Henry C. Clark did not select readings that reflect a single doctrine. Yet, most of these authors in their time appear to have participated in the same conversation about the same general topics. Itinerario 2005 Deftly compiled and edited for contemporary readers by Henry C. Clark, Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings On Capitalism Before Adam Smith is an amalgamation of significant writings published before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) impacted the world's perceptions on economics. A wide variety of authors ranging from Voltaire, to Ferdinando Galiani, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contribute to this absorbing source of pre-Adam Smith perceptions and judgments about economic matters prior to the birth of the American nation as a capitalist beacon to the nations of the world. Wisconsin Bookwatch July 2003 It turns out that Smith did not in fact emerge naked from the sea foam with his 1776 classic Wealth of Nations to found capitalism. The 37 essays and articles, about a quarter translated from French, reveal the thinking about commerce by some well known and less well known writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and particularly highlight the moral and ethical contexts and concerns that have fallen by the wayside since. Reference & Research Book News August 2003

Author Information

Henry C Clark teaches at Clemson University. He has written two books and numerous articles, mainly on the French and Scottish Enlightenments.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available