Oeconomies in the age of Newton
By: edited by Margaret Schabas and Neil De Marchi.
Contributors: Schabas, Margaret, 1954-; De Marchi, Neil.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham, N.C; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Economics -- History -- 17th century.; Economics -- History -- 18th century.; Économie politique -- Histoire.; Économie politique -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.; Économie politique -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Other titles: History of political economy. v. 35 (Supplement)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"Annual supplement to volume 35, History of Political Economy."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Margaret Schabas and Neil De Marchi; title: "Peaches which the Patriarchs lacked" : natural history, natural resources, and the natural economy in France -- E.C. Spary; title: The "spirit of system" in the fortunes of physiocracy -- Jessica Riskin; title: The agricultural foundation of seventeenth-century English oeconomy -- S. Todd Lowry; title: Epicurean and Stoic sources for Boisguilbert's physiological and Hippocratic vision of nature and economics -- Paul P. Christensen; title: "The possibilities of the land" : the inventory of "natural riches" in the early modern German territories -- Alix Cooper; title: Nature as a marketplace : the political economy of Linnaean botany -- Staffan Müller-Wille; title: Underwriting the oeconomy : Linnaeus on nature and mind -- Lisbet Rausing; title: Medical metaphors and monetary strategies in the political economy of Locke and Berkeley -- C. George Caffentzis; title: Credit-money as the philosopher's stone : alchemy and the coinage problem in seventeenth-century England -- Carl Wennerlind; title: Adam Smith's debts to nature -- Margaret Schabas; title: Evocations of sympathy : sympathetic imagery in eighteenth-century social theory and physiology -- Evelyn L. Forget; title: Business ethics, commercial mathematics, and the origins of mathematical probability -- Edith Dudley Sylla; title: Where mechanism ends : Thomas Reid on the moral and the animal oeconomy -- Harro Maas; title: Economia civile and pubblica felicità in the Italian Enlightenment -- Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta.