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The book investigates the many ways thateconomic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historicallyand at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historicallycontingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributorsuse case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance andtax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectualhistory of how economic and moral issues interrelate.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
.- Introduction: Profitingfrom Words Mikkel Thorup .- Chapter 1: The Greed ofGold - Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen .- Chapter 2: Tradeis a Kind of Warfare - Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of JosiahChild Mathias Hein Jessen .- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy - Defendingthe Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18th CenturyDenmark Eva Krause Jørgensen .- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept "PoliticalEconomy" Nicolai von Eggers .- Chapter 5: Equilibrium,Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen.- Chapter 6:Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution Jonas Ross Kjærgård .- Chapter 7: PoliticalEconomy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain Thomas Palmelund Johansen .- Chapter 8: The Crisisis the Social Organism's Mastering of Itself - A Conceptual and EconomicHistory of the Problem of Crisis Bue Rübner Hansen .- Chapter 9: When FinanceBecame Productive, Scientific and Liberating - a Moral History of FinancialSpeculation Christian Olaf Christiansen .- Chapter 10: TheEconomics of Starvation - Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune Møller Stahl .- Chapter 11: The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administrationin Egypt and Nigeria 1882-1914 Casper Andersen .- Chapter 12:Talkingthe Creative Economy into Being Jan Løhmann Stephensen .- Chapter 13: Retweet This - Participation,Collective production and New Paradigms of Cultural Production LouiseFabian and Jaron Rowan.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Mikkel
Thorup is Associate Professor of history of political and economic thought at
the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include
Pro Bono
(2015),
The Total Enemy
(2015),
Intellectual
History of Terror
(2010) and
Rousseau
and Revolution
(2010). His research concentrates at present on the history
of everyday economics.
Zusammenfassung
The book investigates the many ways that
economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically
and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically
contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors
use case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance and
tax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectual
history of how economic and moral issues interrelate.
