Moral discourses of the economy in eighteenth-century Britain / Hye-Joon Yoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoon, Hye-Joon, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Economics.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--History.

Great Britain--Economic policy--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., [2025]

Summary:

"This book presents a comprehensive picture of eighteenth-century British authors' engagement with a society increasingly driven by commercial interests. The books and pamphlets constituting the "discourses" on economic topics overstep the boundaries separating the domains of economics, religion (William Warburton, John Wesley), law (William Blackstone, Lord Mansfield), history (William Robertson, Edward Gibbon), physiology (Richard Morton, Goerge Cheyne) and politics (Edmund Burke, the Abolitionists). An impartial and inclusive history of the "discourses" is what the book purports to construct. The luminaries of the British (and Scottish) Enlightenment (Adam Smith, David Hume), are given due respects, but a great number of less well-known and even anonymous authors also feature in the book. Giving as much scope as possible to the sources themselves, the book pays attention to both the rhetorical and the thematic layers of the quotations, while keeping generalization and theorizations to the minimum. The "eighteenth-century" in the title begins in the 1680s, when some of the important authors such as Nicholas Barbon published their thoughts, and ends in the 1790s, with the contrastive pair of Edmund Burke and Jeremy Bentham." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9819509572

9789819509577

OCLC:

1527663082

Publisher Number:

90103254420

CIPO000266918