TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torre,Jose R.
TI  - The political economy of sentiment: paper credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in early republic Boston, 1780-1820 
T2  - Financial history
SN  - 1851968857
AV  - HG591 .T67 2007
U1  - 330.97304 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Pickering & Chatto
KW  - Paper money
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - To 1865
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -