The Grammar of Profit

The Price Revolution in Intellectual Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14958-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This study explores the relationship between the prevailing concept of "just profit" and contemporary reactions to the Sixteenth-Century Price Revolution by tracing the evolving meaning of "profit" in religious, political, and social discourse. Using the period's own macrocosmic-microcosmic analogy, the book examines family correspondence, wills, and court cases in addition to formal tracts to move outward from issues of spiritual profit to family values, employment relationships, and church and state. While England's experience provides a focal point, extensive use of continental sources reveals the problem's broader context. This study should prove particularly useful to those wishing to knit together the now particularized and separated strands of early modern economic, political, social, and religious history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkelstein, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Profit and the Price Revolution
2. Body, Mind, and Soul
3. Family Values
4. Master and Servant
5. The Body of Profit
6. Profit and Distributive Justice I: The Sins of the Body
7. Profit and Distributive Justice II: The Sins of the Monarch
8. Profit and Commutative Justice
9. The Modern Problem of Profit: A Paradox by Way of a Digression
10. Conclusion: The Grammar of Profit in an Age of Revolutions

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Finkelstein, Ph.D. (1997) in History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, is Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY. Her works include Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Eonomic Thought (Michigan, 2000).