Rousseau’s Economic Philosophy Beyond the Market of Innocents

An increasing body of literature concerns the economics of those highly appreciated qualities of life that are not easily provided by market exchange. Today these problems are visible as never before, for example environmental problems. But already at the dawn of industrial society the problem had b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fridén, Bertil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction Jean-Jaques Rousseau and Political Economy
  • 2. Reading Rousseau From Heart to Heart
  • 3. The Market as a Brothel Information Costs and the Dual Economy of Bread and Lapri
  • 4. Everyone Must Live Blueprint for an Autarchic Economy
  • 5. Starving For Candy The Futility of Mercantilism
  • 6. The Iron Law of Peasant Misery The Maladie of the Corn Market
  • 7. The Self Common to the Whole Democracy Necessary and Impossible
  • 8. Chains of Dependence From Abuse to Use
  • 9. The Jews are Citizens The Realism of the Republic of Hearts
  • 10. Nothing Solid For the Heart An Economy for the Quality of Life