Intellectual History of Economic Normativities [Paperback]

The book investigates the many ways thateconomic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historicallyand at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historicallycontingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributorsuse case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance andtax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectualhistory of how economic and moral issues interrelate. 

.- Introduction: Profitingfrom Words Mikkel Thorup .- Chapter 1: The Greed ofGold  Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen .- Chapter 2: Tradeis a Kind of Warfare  Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of JosiahChild Mathias Hein Jessen .- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy  Defendingthe Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18^th CenturyDenmark Eva Krause J?rgensen .- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept PoliticalEconomy Nicolai von Eggers .- Chapter 5: Equilibrium,Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen.- Chapter 6:Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution Jonas Ross Kj?rg?rd .- Chapter 7: PoliticalEconomy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain  Thomas Palmelund Johansen .- Chapter 8: The Crisisis the Social Organisms Mastering of Itself  A Conceptual and EconomicHistory of the Problem of Crisis  Bue R?bner Hansen .- Chapter 9: When FinanceBecame Productive, Scientific and Liberating  a Moral History of FinancialSpeculation Christian Olaf Christiansen .- Chapter 10: TheEconomics of Starvation  Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune M?ller StlÈ