Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff
Cambridge University Press, 1983 - 371 стор.
Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of lesser known thinkers like Andrew Fletcher, Gershom Carmichael, Lord Kames and John Millar as well as of Locke in the light of eighteenth century social theory, the intellectual culture of the University of Edinburgh in the middle of the eighteenth century and of the performance of the Scottish economy on the eve of the publication of the Wealth of Nations. While the scholarly emphasis is on the rigorous historical reconstruction of both theory and context, Wealth and Virtue directly addresses itself to modern political theorists and economists and throws light on a number of major focal points of controversy in legal and political philosophy.

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Needs and justice in the Wealth of Nations an introductory essay
1
Where had the Scottish economy got to by the third quarter of the eighteenth century?
45
Gershorn Carmichael and the natural jurisprudence tradition in eighteenthcentury Scotland
73
The Scottish professoriate and the polite academy 172046
89
From applied theology to social analysis the break between John Locke and the Scottish Enlightenment
119
The Scottish Enlightenment at the limits of the civic tradition
137
Adam Smith as civic moralist
179
The legal needs of a commercial society the jurisprudence of Lord Kames
203
Cambridge paradigms and Scotch philosophers a study of the relations between the civic humanist and the civil jurisprudential interpretation of eight...
235
Adam Smiths enduring particular result a political and cosmopolitan perspective
253
The rich countrypoor country debate in Scottish classical political economy
271
John Millar and individualism
317
Scottish echoes in eighteenthcentury Italy
345
Index
363
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Michael Ignatieff, born in Toronto in 1947. But at the age of 11, Ignatieff was sent to Toronto to attend Upper Canada College as a boarder in 1959. At UCC, Ignatieff was elected a school prefect as Head of Wedd's House, was the captain of the varsity soccer team, and served as editor-in-chief of the school's yearbook. As well, Ignatieff volunteered for the Liberal Party during the 1965 federal election by canvassing the York South riding. He resumed his work for the Liberal Party in 1968, as a national youth organizer and party delegate for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau party leadership campaign. He then went on to continue his education at the University of Toronto and Harvard and Cambridge universities. In 1976, Ignatieff completed his Ph.D in History at Harvard University. He was granted a Cambridge M.A. by incorporation in 1978 on taking up a fellowship at King's College there. Michael Ignatieff has written television programs for the BBC, novels, and works of nonfiction. He has also authored essays and reviews for several publications including The New York Times. From 1990-93, he wrote a weekly column on international affairs for The Observer. His family memoir, The Russian Album, received Canada's Governor General Award in 1988. His second novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1993. Other nonfiction works include A Just Measure of Pain, the Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution and the Warrior's Honor: Ethic War and the Modern Conscience.

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