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Author | : Sean M. Maliehe |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2021-01-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 178920982X |
This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce. Although the colonial and post-colonial periods were unfavourable to the Basotho, they have, before and after colonial rule, launched impressive commercial initiatives of their own, which bring hope for greater development and freedom in their struggle for economic independence.
Author | : Gregory M. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2020-05-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108489400 |
This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.
Author | : Thomas Mortimer |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : Commerce |
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Author | : Thomas Mortimer |
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1772 |
Genre | : Commerce |
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Author | : Istvan Hont |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674286197 |
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives. In making his case, Hont begins with the concept of commercial society and explains why that concept has much in common with what the German philosopher Immanuel Kant called unsocial sociability. This is why many earlier scholars used to refer to an Adam Smith Problem and, in a somewhat different way, to a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem. The two problems—and the questions about the relationship between individualism and altruism that they raised—were, in fact, more similar than has usually been thought because both arose from the more fundamental problems generated by thinking about morality and politics in a commercial society. Commerce entails reciprocity, but a commercial society also entails involuntary social interdependence, relentless economic competition, and intermittent interstate rivalry. This was the world to which Rousseau and Smith belonged, and Politics in Commercial Society is an account of how they thought about it. Building his argument on the similarity between Smith’s and Rousseau’s theoretical concerns, Hont shows the relevance of commercial society to modern politics—the politics of the nation-state, global commerce, international competition, social inequality, and democratic accountability.
Author | : Jane Jacobs |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2016-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0525432884 |
With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice. In this work of profound insight and elegance, Jacobs gives us a new way of seeing all our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations.
Author | : Ronald Rogowski |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691219435 |
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.
Author | : Anoush Fraser Terjanian |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107005647 |
This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.
Author | : Thomas Mortimer (Vice-Consul for the Austrian Netherlands.) |
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1801 |
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Author | : Douglas A. Irwin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 873 |
Release | : 2017-11-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022639901X |
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —Economist Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer. Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present. “Combines scholarly analysis with a historian’s eye for trends and colorful details . . . readable and illuminating, for the trade expert and for all Americans wanting a deeper understanding of America’s evolving role in the global economy.” —National Review “Magisterial.” —Foreign Affairs