Title: Rationalism and anti-rationalism in the origins of economics : the philosophical roots of 18th century economic thought /
Authors: Coleman, William Oliver, 1959-
Publisher: E. Elgar,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics History; Economics Philosophy
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Philosophical Headwaters: Locke and Leibniz -- 3. The Divergent Streams: Dubos, Bernoulli and Maupertuis -- 4. The Empirical Optimists: Hutcheson and Mandeville -- 5. Hume and the Restoration of the A Priori -- 6. Condillac, Turgot and the Well-made Language of Science -- 7. Condillac, Turgot and the 'Classic Spirit' -- 8. Physiocracy and the First Crisis of Abstraction -- 9. Smith and the Impartial Synthesis -- 10. The Synthesis Dissolves.