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035			_a(DE-B1597)479621
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aNacol, Emily _eautore
245	1	3	_aAn Age of Risk : _bPolitics and Economy in Early Modern Britain / _cEmily Nacol.
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a1 online resource (184 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tChapter One. Introduction -- _tChapter Two. "Experience Concludeth Nothing Universally". Hobbes and the Groundwork for a Political Theory of Risk -- _tChapter Three. The Risks of Political Authority. Trust, Knowledge, and Political Agency in Locke's Politics and Economy -- _tChapter Four. Hume's Fine Balance. On Probability, Fear, and the Risks of Trade -- _tChapter Five. Adventurous Spirits and Clamoring Sophists. Smith on the Problem of Risk in Political Economy -- _tChapter Six. An Age of Risk, a Liberalism of Anxiety -- _tNotes -- _tReferences -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control.In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making. They developed sophisticated theories of trust and credit as crucial background conditions for prudent risk-taking, and offered complex depictions of the relationships and behaviors that would make risk-taking more palatable. They also developed two narratives that persist in subsequent accounts of risk-risk as a threat to security, and risk as an opportunity for profit. Looking at how these narratives are entwined in early modern thought, Nacol locates the origins of our own ambivalence about risk-taking. By the end of the eighteenth century, she argues, a new type of political actor would emerge from this ambivalence, one who approached risk with fear rather than hope.By placing a fresh lens on early modern writing, An Age of Risk demonstrates how new and evolving orientations toward risk influenced approaches to politics and commerce that continue to this day.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aEconomics _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aEconomics _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aRisk _xPhilosophy.
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / Political. _2bisacsh
653			_aAdam Smith.
653			_aDavid Hume.
653			_aJohn Locke.
653			_aLockean political trust.
653			_aMichel Foucault.
653			_aThomas Hobbes.
653			_acivil war.
653			_acommerce.
653			_acommercial actors.
653			_aearly modern Britain.
653			_aearly modern period.
653			_aeconomic risk.
653			_aeighteenth century.
653			_afuture uncertainty.
653			_ageometry.
653			_ahuman ambivalence.
653			_aknowledge.
653			_aliberalism.
653			_amercantile policies.
653			_amonopolies.
653			_amoral theory.
653			_anineteenth century.
653			_aphilosophical skepticism.
653			_apolitical authority.
653			_apolitical economy.
653			_apolitical order.
653			_apolitical risk.
653			_apolitical subject.
653			_apolitical theory.
653			_apolitical thought.
653			_apolitical trust.
653			_aprobabilistic calculation.
653			_aprobability.
653			_arisk control.
653			_arisk prediction.
653			_arisk taking.
653			_arisk-taking.
653			_arisk.
653			_asafe political community.
653			_asecurity threat.
653			_aseventeenth century.
653			_auncertainty.
653			_aunknown future.
653			_awritings.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
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