Natural Origins of Economics

Name: Natural Origins of Economics
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ISBN: 9780226735702

ISBN-10: 0226735702

ISBN-13: 9780226735702

Edition: 2007

Authors: Margaret Schabas

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References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena as properties of physical nature. Only in the early nineteenth century did economists begin to posit and identify the economy as a distinct object, divorcing it from natural processes and attaching it exclusively to human laws and agency. InThe Natural Origins of Economics, Margaret Schabas traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Before "the Economy"



Related Themes in the Natural Sciences



French Economics in the Enlightenment



David Hume



Smith's Debts to Nature



Classical Political Economy in Its Heyday



Mill and the Early Neoclassical Economists



Denaturalizing the Economic Order


Notes


References


Index