Intellectual History of Economic Normativities [Paperback]

The book investigates the many ways thateconomic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historicallyand at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historicallycontingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributorsuse case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance andtax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectualhistory of how economic and moral issues interrelate. 

.- Introduction: Profitingfrom Words

            Mikkel Thorup.

.- Chapter 1: The Greed ofGold  Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals

            Jakob Bek-Thomsen.

            Mathias Hein Jessen.

.- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy  Defendingthe Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18^th CenturyDenmark

            Eva Krause J?rgensen.

.- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept PoliticalEconomy

            Nicolai von Eggers.

.- Chapter 5: Equilibrium,Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics

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