By Mikkel Thorup

The booklet investigates the numerous ways in which monetary and ethical reasoning engage, overlap and clash either traditionally and at the moment. The publication explores monetary and ethical pondering as a traditionally contingent pair utilizing the concept that of financial normativities. The members use case experiences together with financial practices, comparable to exchange and finance and tax and famine reforms within the British colonies to discover the highbrow heritage of the way fiscal and ethical concerns interrelate.

Show description

Read or Download Intellectual History of Economic Normativities PDF

Best history_2 books

Haunted Savannah: America’s Most Spectral City

Why is Savannah, Georgia the main haunted urban in the US? Historian and travel advisor James Caskey solutions this query and plenty of extra. This fully-revised and up to date publication info over 40 of Savannah's such a lot notorious ghost tales, leading to a mystical compilation not like the other. notice the reality approximately Savannah's haunted heritage as you discover spine-chilling stories in regards to the Hostess City's shadowy "Other Side," as instructed by means of a grasp storyteller.

Additional resources for Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Example text

18. Patricia Rubin, “Magnificence and the Medici,” in The Early Medici and their Artists, ed. Francis Ames-Lewis (London: Birkbeck College, 1995), 44. 19. McGovern, “The Rise Of New Economic Attitudes,” 230. 20. Charles Briggs, Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum. 1525 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 21. Leon Battista Alberti, Family in Renaissance Florence: A Translation of I Libri Della Famiglia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969), 161–2. 22. Alberti, Family in Renaissance Florence, 162.

John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), §31. 60. Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics: Regarding Method (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 145–57. 61. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (London: Verso, 2011), 10. 62. Roger Backhouse, The Penguin History of Economics (London: Penguin, 2002), 1. INTRODUCTION: PROFITING FROM WORDS 23 63. Backhouse, The Penguin History of Economics, 2.

The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). 9. Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale. The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). 10. Tomas Sedlacek, Economics of Good and Evil. The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). 11. Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough? The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life (London: Penguin, 2012). See also their edited volume, Are Markets Moral?

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.93 of 5 – based on 41 votes