The political economy of sentiment : paper credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in early republic Boston, 1780-1820
Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.
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x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781851968855, 1851968857
1053088342
Introduction: Prometheus Unbound; Chapter 1 ‘Things Without Him’: Locke and the Logic of Metallism; Chapter 2 Shaftesbury and Scottish Moral Sense Commercial Humanism: Inclinations Implanted in the Subject; Chapter 3 American Money and Political Economy, 1780–1828; Chapter 4 Banking and Money in Boston; Chapter 5 Likeness to God; Chapter 6 The Luxury of Pity; Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Beauty and the Imagination; conclusion Conclusion: Sense Subordinated to the Mind;