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David Hume's Political Economy
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David Hume's Political Economy
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Hume's Political Discourses (1752) won immediate acclaim and positioned him as an authoritative figure on the subject of political economy. This volume of thirteen new essays definitively establishes the central place of political economy in Hume's intellectual endeavor, as well as the profound and far-reaching influence of his theories on Enlighte
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Table of contents
- Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
- Contents
- Author Biographies
- Introduction
- 1 The Scottish Contexts for David Hume’s Political-Economic Thinking
- 2 The Emergence of David Hume as a Political Economist: A Biographical Sketch
- 3 Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus’ Slippers)
- 4 Manners and Morals: David Hume on Civility, Commerce, and the Social Construction of Difference
- 5 Hume’s Framework for a Natural History of the Passions
- 6 An Artificial Virtue and the Oil of Commerce: A Synthetic View of Hume’s Theory of Money
- 7 Temporal Dimensions in Hume’s Monetary Theory
- 8 Fiction or Counterfeit?
- 9 David Hume on Canadian Paper Money
- 10 French “New Politics” and the Dissemination of David Hume’s Political Discourses on the Continent, 1750–70
- 11 Hume’s Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate
- 12 Constitution and Economy in David Hume’s Enlightenment
- 13 The “Rich Country-Poor Country” Debate Revisited
- Bibliography of David Hume’s Works Cited in this Volume
- Bibliography
- Index
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