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Early Debates about Industry Voltaire and His Contemporaries

Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of hea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schui, Florian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2005, 2005
Subjects:
Methodology/history Of Economic Thought
Economics
Economic History
Economic Theory
Economic Theory/quantitative Economics/mathematical Methods
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of heated debates in France and other European countries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century
Physical Description:X, 247 p online resource
ISBN:9780230513334

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