Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9781108489409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 578 str.

Gregory M. Collins

Opis

This book examines the economic thought of Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke's understanding of the relation between commerce and manners, it raises timely ethical questions about capitalism and its limits relevant to contemporary debates over neoliberalism and globalization.

Recenzje

'A fine book. It makes both an important contribution to contemporary debates about conservatism and freedom and to Burke scholarship.' Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Biography: 1. Biography and Burke's authority as a political economist; Part II. Market Economies: 2. Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, supply and demand, and middlemen; 3. Agricultural policy, labor, and wealth redistribution; 4. Markets, rationalism, and the Hayek connection; Part III. The British Constitution and Economical Reform: 5. The British Constitution: Burke's program of economical reform and the role of the state; Part IV. Foreign Trade: 6. Account of the European Settlements in America, the British West Indies, and the Free Port Act of 1766; 7. Observations on a Late State of the Nation and the political economy of Anglo-American imperial relations; 8. Anglo-Irish commercial relations, Two Letters on the Trade of Ireland, and the politics of free trade; Part V. India: 9. Britain's East India Company, Indian markets, and monopoly: 10. Speech on Fox's India Bill, six mercantile principles, and the danger of political commerce; Part VI. The French Revolution: 11. Reflections on the Revolution in France: property, the monied interest, and the assignats; 12. The real rights of men, manners, and the limits of transactional exchange; Conclusion.