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Civilizing Money - Hume, His Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment

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An engaging and unique study of Enlightenment philosopher David Hume's understanding of money and his role in the rise of capitalism


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List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Foreword

An Autobiographical Preface

Introduction: Who is a Philosopher of Money?

PART I: HUME AND HIS CLASS'S PROBLEMATIC

1. On the Scottish Origins of Civilization

2. Civilizing the Highlands: Hume, Money and the Annexing Act

3. Hume's Monetary Education in Bristol

PART II: HUME'S PHILOSOPHY AND HIS STRATEGY

4. Why was Hume a Metallist?

5. Did Hume read Berkeley's The Querist? Notions and Conventions in their Philosophies of Money

6. Fiction or Counterfeit? Specie or Paper?

7. Wages and Money: Pegasus' Mirror

Conclusion: Locke, Berkeley and Hume as Philosophers of Money

Coda: A Critique of Marx's Thesis 11 on Feuerbach

Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author

George Caffentzis is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over thirty years before retirement. He is the author of Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government and Civilizing Money.

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An engaging and unique study of Enlightenment philosopher David Hume's understanding of money and his role in the rise of capitalism

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