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Author Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013, author.

Title Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 138 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Economics -- Political aspects.
Economics -- Political aspects.
Economics.
Commerce -- Philosophy.
Commerce -- Philosophy.
Commerce.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Kapossy, Bela, 1965- editor.
Sonenscher, Michael, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013, author. Politics in commercial society 9780674967700 (DLC) 2014042119 (OCoLC)893709363
ISBN 9780674286177 electronic book
0674286170 electronic book
9780674967700
0674967704