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Author:   Christine Zabel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.444kg
ISBN:  

9780367741495

ISBN 10:   0367741490
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   26 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: The Search for Self-Interest and the Problems with its Historicization Part 1: Creating, Inspiring and Calculating Self-Interest 1. Improvement, Projecting, and Self-Interest in the Hartlib Circle, c. 1640–1660 2. Reckoning Self-Interest at the French Revolutionary Comité des Finances Part 2: Understanding, Teaching, and Learning about Self-Interest 3. Commercial Sociability and the Management of Self-Interest in Isaac de Pinto’s Letter on Card-Playing 4. The Concept of Self-interest in Eighteenth Century Anthropology and Economic Theory. From Richard Cumberland to Adam Smith 5. The Problem of Embeddedness Revisited. Self-Interest as a Challenge in Ethnographic and Historical Research Part 3: Embodying, Feeling and Practicing Self-Interest 6. Commercial Desires in a Web of Interest. Dutch Discourses on (Self-)interest, 1600-1830 7. Practical Knowledge of Self-Interest: The Disembedding of Agency in Rural Areas, Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 8. Pursuing Self-Interest: Stock Market Speculation in the Early Twentieth-Century United States Part 4: Taming Self-Interest, Self-Interest as Limitation 9. Interest as an Enduring Political Problem in Early Modern France 10. Self-Interest, Speculation, and Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America 11. Against Self-interest: The Codification of “Disinterestedness” as an Axiological Operator, in Religion, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Intellectual Professions

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Christine Zabel is Director of the Early Modern Department at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France. She is currently completing a book on the economic and financial history of speculation, especially in early modern France. She is particularly interested in the history of political economy, financial mathematics, the history of knowledge and early modern republicanism(s). She is the author of the book Polis und Politesse. Der Diskurs über das antike Athen in England und Frankreich, 1630–1760 (2016).

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