Reflections on commercial life
Subtitle: an anthology of classic texts from Plato to the present
By: edited by Patrick Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781306872317
Subjects: Capitalism; Philosophy; Commerce; Philosophie
Description: Is commercialization the mainspring of modernity? Do modern commercial forms represent an end state of social development--the "end of history"? Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, poses these and other similar questions. It provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self- conscious and critical relationship to commercial life, as it challenges the inattention of mainstream economics to the social forms that make up commercial life, such as money, the commodity, wage-labor, and capital
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Plato; title: ch. 2. Aristotle; title: ch. 3. St. Thomas Aquinas; title: ch. 4. St. Thomas More; title: ch. 5. John Locke; title: ch. 6. Bernard Mandeville; title: ch. 7. David Hume; title: ch. 8. Adam Smith; title: ch. 9. James Madison; title: ch. 10. Friedrich Schiller; title: ch. 11. G.W.F. Hegel; title: ch. 12. Karl Marx; title: ch. 13. John Stuart Mill; title: ch. 14. Thorstein Veblen; title: ch. 15. Georg Simmel; title: ch. 16. Max Weber; title: ch. 17. Marcel Mauss; title: ch. 18. Georges Bataille; title: ch. 19. Simone Weil; title: ch. 20. Friedrich A. Hayek; title: ch. 21. Hannah Arendt; title: ch. 22. Daniel Bell; title: ch. 23. Jean Baudrillard.