Commerce, culture, and liberty : readings on capitalism before Adam Smith / edited by Henry C. Clark. - xxiii, 680 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conceptions for a Free Trade / Political Maxims of the State of Holland / A New Discourse of Trade / Moral Essays / A Discourse of Trade / Discourses upon Trade / Second Discourse on the Affairs of Scotland / The Spectator / "General Idea of the New System of Finances" / Cato's Letters / The Fable of the Bees / An Enquiry Whether a General Practice of Virtue Tends to the Wealth or Poverty, Benefit or Disadvantage of a People / The Complete English Tradesman / Plan for the Improvement of Commerce / A Political Essay upon Commerce / "The Worldling" / "The Man of the World" / "On Commerce and Luxury" / Spectacle of Nature / Spirit of the Laws / On Money / "An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers" / "Of Refinement in the Arts" / "Memoire" / "Luxury, Commerce, and the Arts" / A View of the Manner in Which Trade and Civil Liberty Support Each Other / The Commercial Nobility / An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times / "In Praise of Gournay" / "Luxury" / A View of the Progress of Society in Europe / Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth / On the Origin and Progress of a New Science / Dialogues on the Grain Trade / "A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies" / On the Origin of the Distinction of Ranks / Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship / William Walwyn -- Pieter de la Court -- Josiah Child -- Pierre Nicole -- Nicholas Barbon -- Dudley North -- Andrew Fletcher -- Richard Steele -- John Law -- John Trenchard -- Bernard Mandeville -- George Blewhitt -- Daniel Defoe -- Charles Irenee Castel de Saint-Pierre -- Jean-Francois Melon -- Voltaire -- Voltaire -- Voltaire -- Noel-Antoine Pluche -- Montesquieu -- Ferdinando Galiani -- Henry Fielding -- David Hume -- Jacques-Claude-Marie-Vincent de Gournay -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- William Hazeland -- Gabriel Francois Coyer -- John Brown -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- Jean-Francois Saint-Lambert -- William Robertson -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours -- Ferdinando Galiani -- Guillaume-Thomas-Francois Raynal -- John Millar -- Etienne Bonnot de Condillac. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.

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Economics--History--17th century.
Economics--History--18th century.
Economics--Political aspects--History.
Economics--Sociological aspects--History.
Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--History.

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