Stakes of Regulation - Perspectives on Bread, Politics Political Economy Forty Years Later

Informationen zum Autor Steven L. Kaplan is the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, emeritus at Cornell University. Klappentext This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psychological. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. (Re-)Thinking Regulation: Police, Prices, Markets; 2. Agriculture and the French Economy of the Old Regime; 3. Collective Action and Its Actors: The Moral Economy and the Market, the People and the Elites, Disorder and Order; 4. The Parlements in the Age of Economic Enlightenment; 5. Kings and Ministers: Politics and Policies, Finance and Subsistence; 6. The New Historiography of Political Economy; 7. Famine, Dearth, and Food (In-)Security; Afterword; Index

Product details

• Authors: Steven L. Kaplan
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2015
• EAN: 9781783084760
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-476-0
• No. of pages: 468
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous