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Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise.

Drawing on women's wills, merchants' tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that focus on...

Demonstrating that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were flexible and innovative, this book argues that the notion of self-interest was a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.