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The political economy of sentiment : paper credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in early republic Boston, 1780-1820 / by Jose R. Torre.

By:

Torre, Jose R [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Financial history ; no. 2.Publisher: London : Pickering & Chatto, 2007Description: x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1851968857
9781851968855

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330.97304 22

LOC classification:

HG591 .T67 2007

Contents:

Introduction : Prometheus unbound -- 1. 'Things without him' : Locke and the logic of metallism -- 2. Shaftesbury and Scottish moral sense commercial humanism : inclinations implanted in the subject -- 3. American money and political economy, 1780-1828 -- 4. Banking and money in Boston -- 5. Likeness to God -- 6. The luxury of pity -- 7. The political economy of beauty and the imagination -- Conclusion : sense subordinated to the mind.

Review: "This new monograph repositions the financial revolution at the heart of the Enlightenment project. Jose R. Torre argues that the Scottish philosophers' transference of value from commodities to signs established an economy based on human imagination. This radical recalculation of value opened the door to a new social order based on emotions and desires. It undermined the empiricist world view and precipitated a fundamental shift in human psychology." "Torre focuses on Boston during the early years of the American Republic: a time of violent social flux. The widespread acceptance of paper money is a unique opportunity to document the role of nominal economic value in the construction of national personality."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index.

"This new monograph repositions the financial revolution at the heart of the Enlightenment project. Jose R. Torre argues that the Scottish philosophers' transference of value from commodities to signs established an economy based on human imagination. This radical recalculation of value opened the door to a new social order based on emotions and desires. It undermined the empiricist world view and precipitated a fundamental shift in human psychology." "Torre focuses on Boston during the early years of the American Republic: a time of violent social flux. The widespread acceptance of paper money is a unique opportunity to document the role of nominal economic value in the construction of national personality."--BOOK JACKET.

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