Predicting the Bankruptcy of England: David Hume’s Political Discourses and the Dutch Debate on National Debt in the Eighteenth Century

Although intellectual historians have long established that the evolution of national debt had a decisive impact on early-modern political discourse, the Dutch case has yet to be understood. This article uses the reception of David Hume’s Political Discourses as an illustration of a broader debate i...

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Main Author: Lina Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2017-07-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:http://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.8/