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The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreement on this issue was formed in the period. In this book contributors reassess the conflicting views on money, trade, banking, and the role of the State in the work of leading figures such as Locke, Davenant, Toland, Berkeley and Smith, and Smith’s critics in revolutionary France. <br/> Key events, from the Recoinage crisis in the 1690s to the South Sea Bubble in the 1720s and the consequences of the French Revolution, sharpened the need for a more dynamic conception of economic forces in the midst of the Financial Revolution. Political economy emerged as a disruptive force, challenging philosophers to debate and define unstable phenomena in a new climate of expanding credit, innovation in money form, political change and international competition. In <em>Money and political economy in the Enlightenment</em> contributors investigate received critical assumptions about what was progressive and what was backward-looking, and reconsider traditional attempts to periodise the Enlightenment. Major questions explored include:<br/> • the impact of economic and political crises on philosophy;<br/> • transitions from mercantilist to ‘classical’ analyses of the market;<br/> • the challenge of reviving ancient republicanism on the foundations of a modern commercial system, with its inherent social inequalities.<br/> <br/> List of illustrations<br/> Daniel Carey, Introduction: money and political economy in the era of Enlightenment<br/> Johann P. Sommerville, Sir Robert Filmer, usury and the ideology of order<br/> Daniel Carey, John Locke’s philosophy of money<br/> Charles Larkin, The Great Recoinage of 1696: Charles Davenant and monetary theory<br/> Justin Champion, ‘Mysterious politicks’: land, credit and Commonwealth political economy, 1656-1722<br/> Patrick Kelly, Berkeley and the idea of a national bank<br/> Ryan Patrick Hanley and Maria Pia Paganelli, Adam Smith on money, mercantilism and the system of natural liberty<br/> Thomas Hopkins, Pierre-Louis Rœderer, Adam Smith and the problem of inequality<br/> Summaries<br/> Contributors<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/> <br/>
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