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Two Narratives of Political Economy

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ISBN-10: 0470948299

ISBN-13: 9780470948293

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nicholas Capaldi, Gordon Lloyd

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This is an anthology of political economy from the 17 th to the 19 th century. The main theme is that all of political economy from the 17 th century to the very present can be captured in two narratives originating in Locke and Rousseau respectively. Those original narratives are expanded in significant ways in the 18th and 19 th centuries and the editors argue that they still hold sway today. Edited original writings included in the anthology are from: Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Owen, as well as the Federalist Papers, French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the American Constitution. The editors have restricted their comments to…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 2/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 510
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.70" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Editors' Note
General Introduction
The Emergence of Political Economy: Economic Activity Leaves the Household
Introduction
The Second Treatise
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Some Considerations of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money
The Two Discourses
A Discourse on Political Economy
The Social Contract
The Arrival of Political Economy: Liberty, Property, and Equality
Introduction
Wealth of Nations
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The American Founding
Democracy in America
The French Revolution
A New View of Society
Nouveau Christianisme
Friedrich List National System
The Philosophy of Poverty
What is Property?
The Maturation of the Two Narratives: The Challenge of Social Economy
Introduction
The Principles of Political Economy
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Index