Commerce, Culture, and Liberty

Name: Commerce, Culture, and Liberty
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ISBN: 9780865973794

ISBN-10: 0865973792

ISBN-13: 9780865973794

Edition: 2003

Authors: Henry C. CLARK

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Presents rich and provocative writings on the relationship between commerce and luxury, virtue, nobility, agriculture, the state, religion, civility, and liberty. The book restores the voice of a rich body of reflections on the larger import of the birth of the modern economy that has been largely silent in academic discourse on the topic. Moreover, it presents significant though hard-to-find writings by a host of well-known authors, including a little-known essay by Rousseau. It also presents important writings that have been pre-empted by Adam Smith, writings that say as much about our age as about the age in which they were written. Commerce, Culture, and Liberty presents rich and…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 703
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English



Foreword


Editor's Note


Translator's Note


Acknowledgments



Conceptions for a Free Trade




Political Maxims of the State of Holland




A New Discourse of Trade




Moral Essays




A Discourse of Trade




Discourses upon Trade




Second Discourse on the Affairs of Scotland




The Spectator




"General Idea of the New System of Finances"




Cato's Letters




The Fable of the Bees




An Enquiry Whether a General Practice of Virtue Tends to the Wealth or Poverty, Benefit or Disadvantage of a People




The Complete English Tradesman




Plan for the Improvement of Commerce




A Political Essay upon Commerce




"The Worlding,"




"The Man of the World,"




"On Commerce and Luxury,"




Spectacle of Nature




Spirit of the Laws




On Money




"An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers,"




"Of Refinement in the Arts,"




"Memoire,"




"Luxury, Commerce, and the Arts,"




A View of the Manner in Which Trade and Civil Liberty Support Each Other




The Commercial Nobility




An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times




"In Praise of Gournay,"




"Luxury,"




A View of the Progress of Society in Europe




Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth




On the Origin and Progress of a New Science




Dialogues on the Grain Trade




"A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies,"




On the Origin of the Distinction of Ranks




Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship



Glossary


Index