Jealousy of Trade: international competition and the nation state in historical perspective

By - Hont, Istvan,

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2005.

ISBN 10 - 0674010388

ISBN 13 - 9780674010383

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Competition, International--History.

Shelf No - 20

Call Number - 382.1 HON

Physical Description - xviii, 541 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"The author focuses on Adam Smith and his contemporaries, who pondered these issues, particularly the nature and development of commercial society. They attempted to come to terms with the claim that, on the one hand, the market was a decisive element in economic progress, and, on the other, that its workings depended upon the release of the immoral desires of fallen men and that its consequences were socially and politically destabilizing. Hont reconstructs the salient features of this controversy between the proponents of market sociability and its most trenchant critics. In doing so, he has helped to locate historically the most important arguments at the heart of the emergence of modernity."--Jacket.

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