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The Grammar of Profit
The Price Revolution in Intellectual Context
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
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This study explores the relationship between the prevailing concept of "just profit" and contemporary reactions to the Sixteenth-Century Price Revolution by tracing the evolving meaning of "profit" in religious, political, and social discourse. Using the period's own macrocosmic-microcosmic analogy, the book examines family correspondence, wills, and court cases in addition to formal tracts to move outward from issues of spiritual profit to family values, employment relationships, and church and state. While England's experience provides a focal point, extensive use of continental sources reveals the problem's broader context. This study should prove particularly useful to those wishing to knit together the now particularized and separated strands of early modern economic, political, social, and religious history.
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Andrea Finkelstein, Ph.D. (1997) in History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, is Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY. Her works include Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Eonomic Thought (Michigan, 2000).
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"Finkelstein, who previously published a history of seventeenth-century English economic thought, sets out to discover how the concept of profit evolved under the impact of the great inflation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (…) If, as the ancients and most early moderns believed, economies were static, then their concept of redistribution in advantageous ways worked. If, however, economies can grow, then all the old concepts must be redefined. As that sank in, different ideas of profit became popular. (…) Finkelstein displays the concept of profit in all its colors."
Norman Jones, Renaissance Quarterly
Norman Jones, Renaissance Quarterly
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eBook published on:
March 1, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9789047408901
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Main content:
374
eBook ISBN:
9789047408901
Keywords for this book
Intellectual; History; Price; Revolution; Early; Modern; Economic; Theory; Social; Political; Just; Profit
Audience(s) for this book
Those interested in intellectual history, history of social, economic, and political theory, and Early Modern European history; academic libraries, institutes, and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the subjects listed.
