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The commercial society : foundations and challenges in a global age / Samuel Gregg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregg, Samuel, 1969-
- Series:
- Studies in ethics and economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free enterprise--History.
- Free enterprise.
- History.
- Democracy--Economic aspects.
- Democracy.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 177 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Guided by the thoughts of Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel Gregg's iThe Commercial Societyi identifies and explores the key foundational elements that must exist within a society for commercial order to take root and flourish. Gregg studies the challenges that have consistently impeded and occasionally undermined commercial order.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Toward commercial order
- Foundations
- Neither angel nor beast
- The system of natural liberty
- The liberty of law
- Challenges
- The temptation of politics
- The dilemma of democracy
- Culture and the possibility of "non-spontaneous" commercial society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739119938
- 0739119931
- 9780739119945
- 073911994X
- OCLC:
- 71809971
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