Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ Introduction ix
5. A Note on the Text xxi
6. 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem 1
7. 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem 25
8. 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? 48
9. 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? 68
10. 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands 89
11. 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War 111
12. Index 133