Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Chapter 1 Introduction: Profiting from Words

Chapter 2 The Greed of Gold: Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals

Chapter 3 Trade is a Kind of Warfare: Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of Josiah Child

Chapter 4 The Wedel-Jarlsberg-Controversy: Defending the Existing Order against the Reform-Movement in Late Eighteenth-Century Denmark

Chapter 5 The Emergence of the Concept “Political Economy”

Chapter 6 Equilibrium, Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics

Chapter 7 Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution

Chapter 8 Political Economy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain

Chapter 9 The Crisis Is the Social Organism’s Mastering of Itself: A Conceptual and Economic History of the Problem of Crisis

Chapter 10 When Finance Became Productive, Scientific and Liberating: A Moral History of Financial Speculation

Chapter 11 The Economics of Starvation: Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India

Chapter 12 The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administration in Egypt and Nigeria, 1882–1914

Chapter 13 Talking the Creative Economy into Being