Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith /

Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013,

Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xxi, 138 pages)

Text of the six Carlyle Lectures on the thought of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Hont gave at Oxford University in the Hilary Term of 2009.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Commercial sociability : the Jean-Jacques Rousseau problem -- Commercial sociability : the Adam Smith problem -- Histories of government : which comes first, judges or the law? -- Histories of government : republics, inequality, and revolution? -- Political economy : markets, households, and invisible hands -- Political economy : nationalism, emulation, and war.



9780674286177


Economics--Political aspects.
Commerce--Philosophy.


Electronic Books.

HB74 / .P655 2015