Early Debates About Industry - Voltaire and His Contemporaries

Informationen zum Autor FLORIAN SCHUI is a historian of political and economic thought at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 2004 and is a Junior Research Fellow at St. Edmund's College. He has studied economics at the New School for Social Research in New York and history at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He is currently working on international exchanges of ideas about taxation in Europe and the Atlantic world, 1750 - 1848. Klappentext Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of heated debates in France and other European countries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century. Zusammenfassung Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Industry in Voltaire's Time Voltaire, Prussia, and Industry A European Debate about Colbert How Much Industry does a Nation Need? A Political Campaign for Industry Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: F Schui, F. Schui, Florian Schui
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2005
• EAN: 9781403947994
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4799-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Voltaire, B, TIME, Economic history, Quantitative Economics, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Econometrics, Economic theory and philosophy