Nature in the History of Economic Thought - How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept

List of contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
PART I ATTITUDES TOWARD NATURE
FROM ANTIQUITY TO MERCANTILISM
1 From Antiquity to the Renaissance
2 Mercantilism and Natural Resources
PART II THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS
OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
3 Pre-Classical Enlightenment Developments
4 The Physiocrats and the Bread Riots
5 From Adam Smith to Classical Political Economy
6 John Stuart Mill and the Idea of Progress
PART III MANAGING THE USE OF NATURE
7 Managing Nature in the Enlightenment
8 Ricardo and Malthus on the Utilization of Nature
9 Jean-Baptiste Say and Other Contemporaries
10 John Stuart Mill’s Attitude toward Nature
Epilogue: From Socialism to Modernity

About the author

Nathaniel Wolloch is an independent scholar from Israel, specializing in European intellectual history. He is the author of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (2006), and History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Wolloch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138329881
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32988-1
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs