Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present 9781317973188, 9780415911955, 9780415911962, 9781315870601, 0415911966

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
General Introduction: "On Studying Commercial Life" (with bibliographies)
Chapter 1 Plato
From the Republic Books I
From the Republic Books II
From the Republic Books III
Chapter 2 Aristotle
From the Politics Books I
From the Politics Books II
Chapter 3 ST. Thomas Aquinas
From the Summa Contra Gentiles
"That Man's Happiness does not Consist in Wealth"
"How Poverty is Good"
the Summa Theologiae
Question 66, "Of Theft and Robbery"
Question 77, "Of Cheating, Which is Committed in Buying and Selling"
Question 78, "Of the Sin of Usury"
Question 100, "On Simony"
Chapter 4 ST. Thomas more
From Utopia
Chapter 5 John Locke
From the Second Treatise of Government
"Of Property"
Chapter 6 Bernard Mandeville
From The Fable of the Bees
Remark L.: Whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, &c.
Remark Q.: For frugally They now lived on Their Salary
Chapter 7 David Hume
From Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
"Of Commerce"
"Of Refinement in the Arts"
Chapter 8 Adam Smith
From The Wealth of Nations
"Of the Division of Labour,"
"Of the Principle which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour,"
"Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour."
"Of the Natural Progress of Opulence,"
"How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country,"
"Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth"
Chapter 9 James Madison
From The Federalist Papers
Number X
Chapter 10 Friedrich Schiller
From On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters
Sixth Letter
Chapter 11 G.W.F. Hegel
From the Elements of the Philosophy of Right
"Civil Society"
Chapter 12 Karl Marx
From Capital, vol. I
"Commodities,"
"The General Formula for Capital,"
"The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power"
Chapter 13 John Stuart Mill
From the Principles of Political Economy
"Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisser-Faire or Non-Interference Principle"
Chapter 14 Thorstein Veblen
From The Theory of the Leisure Class
"Pecuniary Emulation"
"Conspicuous Consumption"
Chapter 15 Georg Simmel
"The Metropolis and Mental Life"
Chapter 16 Max Weber
From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
"The Spirit of Capitalism"
Chapter 17 Marcel Mauss
From The Gift
"Conclusions for Economic Sociology and Political Economy"
Chapter 18 Georges Bataille
From The Accursed Share
"Theory of 'Potlatch'"
Chapter 19 Simone Well
From Oppression and Liberty
"Sketch of Contemporary Social Life"
Chapter 20 Friedrich A. Hayek
From Law, Legislation and Liberty
"The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society"
Chapter 21 Hannah Arendt
From The Human Condition
"The Rise of the Social"
Chapter 22 Daniel Bell
From "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism"
Chapter 23 Jean Baudrillard
From Selected Writings
"Consumer Society"
Index

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