History of Economic Rationalities
Economic Reasoning as Knowledge and Practice Authority
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Beschreibung
This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes place in the meeting with other regimes of thought, values, and moral discourses.
The book offers new and refreshing insights, ranging from the development of early economic thinking to economic aspects and concepts in the works of classical thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Karl Marx, to the role of economic reasoning in contemporary policies of art and health care. With economic rationalities as the read thread, the reader is offered a unique chance of historical self-awareness and recollection of how economic rationality became the powerful ideological and moral force that it is today.
This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes place in the meeting with other regimes of thought, values, and moral discourses.
The book offers new and refreshing insights, ranging from the development of early economic thinking to economic aspects and concepts in the works of classical thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Karl Marx, to the role of economic reasoning in contemporary policies of art and health care. With economic rationalities as the read thread, the reader is offered a unique chance of historical self-awareness and recollection of how economic rationality became the powerful ideological and moral force that it is today.
Offers a whole new intellectual and cultural history of economic rationality Contributes significantly to a 'new' intellectual history of economic thought Includes compelling insights into specific historical case-studies, ranging from early-modern economic thought to John Locke to contemporary forms of economic rationalities in health care and the arts
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Jakob Bek-Thomsen
Themen in »History of Economic Rationalities«
Cultural history of economic rationality International to global health History of economic thought Intellectual history Ethical economy Thomas Hobbes John Locke Karl Marx Western Economic Rationality Renaissance Neoplatonism Political Economy Modern Economic Reasoning Financial Reasoning Merchants and Bankers