TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hont,Istvan
AU  - Kapossy,Béla
AU  - Sonenscher,Michael
TI  - Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith 
SN  - 9780674286177
U1  - 330.01 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Economics
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Editors’ Introduction --; A Note on the Text --; 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem --; 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem --; 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? --; 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? --; 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands --; 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674286177
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674286177
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674286177/original
ER  -