Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World: A Plea for Ego?

ISBN-13: 9780367741495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 292 str.

Christine Zabel

Opis

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a central component of economic theory. This is the ideal resource for researches and scholars of intellectual, political and economic history in the modern Atlantic World.

O autorze

Christine Zabel is Director of the Early Modern Department at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France. She is currently completing a book on the economic and financial history of speculation, especially in early modern France. She is particularly interested in the history of political economy, financial mathematics, the history of knowledge and early modern republicanism(s). She is the author of the book Polis und Politesse. Der Diskurs über das antike Athen in England und Frankreich, 1630–1760 (2016).