The “force of commerce,” capitalism, and the common good in early American history
The following reviews the debate regarding the connection between commerce, improvement, wealth creation, and public happiness from the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries through to the modern day. From the beginning, I argued, commentators were divided between optimists who celebrated the profita...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2020-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/4666 |