The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance and tax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectual history of how economic and moral issues interrelate.

Autorentext

Mikkel Thorup is Associate Professor of history of political and economic thought at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Pro Bono (2015), The Total Enemy (2015), Intellectual History of Terror (2010) and Rousseau and Revolution (2010). His research concentrates at present on the history of everyday economics.

Inhalt

.- Introduction: Profiting from Words Mikkel Thorup .- Chapter 1: The Greed of Gold Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen .- Chapter 2: Trade is a Kind of Warfare Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of Josiah Child Mathias Hein Jessen .- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy Defending the Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18th Century Denmark Eva Krause Jørgensen .- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept Political Economy 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 Kjærgård .- Chapter 7: Political Economy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain Thomas Palmelund Johansen .- Chapter 8: The Crisis is the Social Organism's Mastering of Itself A Conceptual and Economic History of the Problem of Crisis Bue Rübner Hansen .- Chapter 9: When Finance Became Productive, Scientific and Liberating a Moral History of Financial Speculation Christian Olaf Christiansen .- Chapter 10: The Economics of Starvation Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune Møller Stahl .- Chapter 11: The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administration in Egypt and Nigeria 1882-1914 Casper Andersen .- Chapter 12: Talking the Creative Economy into Being Jan Løhmann Stephensen .- Chapter 13: Retweet This Participation, Collective production and New Paradigms of Cultural Production Louise Fabian and Jaron Rowan.