Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present

by Murray,Patrick; Murray,Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780415911955
• ISBN10: 0415911958
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Is commercialization the mainspring of modernity? Do modern commercial forms represent an end state of social development--the "end of history"?Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, poses these and other similar questions. It provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self- conscious and critical relationship to commercial life, as it challenges the inattention of mainstream economics to the social forms that make up commercial life, such as money,the commodity, wage-labor, and capital. Selections are drawn from seminal works of high intellectual and literary quality. Through an inquiry into history, nature, and outcomes,Reflections on Commercial Lifeis an important anthology that offers the opportunity to explore, as never before, alternatives to modern commercial life.

Table of Contents

General Introduction: "On Studying Commercial Life"	p. 1
Plato	p. 39
Aristotle	p. 69
St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 87
St. Thomas More	p. 117
John Locke	p. 133
Bernard Mandeville	p. 147
David Hume	p. 155
Adam Smith	p. 173
James Madison	p. 205
Friedrich Schiller	p. 215
G. W. F. Hegel	p. 223
Karl Marx	p. 253
John Stuart Mill	p. 297
Thorstein Veblen	p. 317
Georg Simmel	p. 333
Max Weber	p. 349
Marcel Mauss	p. 365
Georges Bataille	p. 373
Simone Weil	p. 383
Friedrich A. Hayek	p. 397
Hannah Arendt	p. 417
Daniel Bell	p. 429
Jean Baudrillard	p. 447
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