Money and political economy in the Enlightenment
By: edited by Daniel Carey
Series: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:05; Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:05.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780729411387
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Monetary policy; History; Economics; Economic conditions
Description: The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreement on this issue was formed in the period. In this book contributors reassess the conflicting views on money, trade, banking, and the role of the State in the work of leading figures such as Locke, Davenant, Toland, Berkeley and Smith, and Smith's critics in revolutionary France. Key events, from the Recoinage crisis in the 1690s to the South Sea Bubble in the 1720s and the consequences of the French Revolution, sharpened the need for a more dynamic conception of economic forces in the midst of the Financial Revolution. Political economy emerged as a disruptive force, challenging philosophers to debate and define unstable phenomena in a new climate of expanding credit, innovation in money form, political change and international competition. In Money and political economy in the Enlightenment contributors investigate received critical assumptions about what was progressive and what was backward-looking, and reconsider traditional attempts to periodise the Enlightenment.--
Notes: Includes summaries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.

In English; with summaries in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : money and political economy in the era of the Enlightenment  -- Daniel Carey; title: Sir Robert Filmer, usury and the ideology of order  -- Johann P. Sommerville; title: John Locke's philosophy of money  -- Daniel Carey; title: The Great Recoinage of 1696 : Charles Davenant and monetary theory  -- Charles Larkin; title: 'Mysterious politicks' : land, credit and Commonwealth political economy, 1656-1722  -- Justin Champion; title: Berkeley and the idea of a national bank  -- Patrick Kelly; title: Adam Smith on money, mercantilism and the system of natural liberty  -- Ryan Patrick Hanley and Maria Pia Paganelli; title: Pierre-Louis Rœderer, Adam Smith and the problem of inequality -- Thomas Hopkins.