David Ricardo an intellectual biography
"David Ricardo has been acclaimed - or vilified - for merits he would never have dreamt of, or sins for which he was entirely innocent. Entrenched mythology labels him as a utilitarian economist, an enemy of the working class, an impractical theorist, a scientist with 'no philosophy at all...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in the history of economics.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009674732706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Preface: Science, logic, ethics and theology in Ricardo's intellectual biography
- 1 Ricardo's Sepharad
- Twenty-one years in Ricardo's life
- Anglo-Judaism from 1600 to 1793
- Echoes from the Haskalah
- Ricardo's education
- Partial conclusions: the importance of being an outsider
- 2 Ricardo's encounter with the Quakers
- The Society of Friends
- British Quakerism at the time of the French Revolution
- The impossible marriage of a Jew with a Quaker
- Ricardo's Quaker relations
- Ricardo's involvement in a Quaker secession
- Partial conclusions: the importance of being a husband
- 3 Ricardo's encounter with the Unitarians
- Scripture and reason
- Ricardo's 'conversion'
- Robert Aspland, the missionary to the Jews
- Thomas Belsham, the Biblical scholar
- James Lindsay, the campaigner for Toleration
- John Bowring and Thomas Smith
- Partial conclusions: the importance of being a Dissenter
- 4 Ricardo's encounter with geologists
- Ricardo's higher education
- The London Institution
- Chemistry after the phlogiston controversy
- Geology after the catastrophism-uniformitarianism controversy
- Richard Kirwan
- The Geological Society of London
- Controversies in geology: logic, definitions and causality
- From chemistry and geology to political economy
- Partial conclusions: the importance of a scientific education
- 5 Ricardo's encounter with philosophers and political economists
- Francis Horner and the Scottish philosophy
- Jeremy Bentham and the philosophic radicals
- James Mill, between Scottish philosophy and Benthamism
- Thomas Robert Malthus and the Cambridge philosophy
- Thomas Belsham and the Hartley-Priestley philosophy
- Jean-Baptiste Say and the idéologie.
- Partial conclusions: a high station among philosophers
- 6 Ricardo on logic and political economy
- Ricardian rhetoric
- Language and definitions
- Laws and causes
- Permanent causes and natural magnitudes
- Strong cases
- The redundancy of utility
- Ricardian logic and scientific practice
- Ricardian logic and policy advice
- Partial conclusions: a science without an art
- 7 Ricardo on ethics and political economy
- Moral impressions and the rational pursuit of happiness
- Just war
- Penal law and private morality
- Slavery
- Unlimited toleration
- Good government
- Ethics and the uses of political economy
- The miscarriage of all social theodicies
- Partial conclusions: neither a utilitarian nor theological optimist
- Conclusions: a man from another planet
- Appendix
- The Christian Reformer: text of the Christians' Petition
- The Christian Reformer &
- The Monthly Repository: presentation of the Christians' Petition in the House of Commons and the House of the Lords
- The Sunday Times: Daniel Whittle Harvey's obituary
- The Morning Chronicle: Mill's Letter to the Editor
- The Monthly Repository: obituary
- The Gentlemen's Magazine: obituary
- The Penny Cyclopaedia: George Porter's entry
- Index.
