Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the PresentPatrick Murray Is commercialization the mainspring of modernity? Do modern commercial forms represent an end state of social development--the "end of history"? Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, poses these and other similar questions. It provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self- conscious and critical relationship to commercial life, as it challenges the inattention of mainstream economics to the social forms that make up commercial life, such as money, the commodity, wage-labor, and capital. |
Contents
MAX WEBER 349 | 1943 |
1 | 1975 |
ST THOMAS AQUINAS 87 | 2031 |
ST THOMAS MORE 117 | 21 |
JOHN LOCKE 133 | 37 |
DAVID HUME 155 | 59 |
ADAM SMITH 173 | 77 |
JAMES MADISON 205 | 109 |
JOHN STUART MILL 297 | 201 |
THORSTEIN VEBLEN 317 | 221 |
GEORG SIMMEL 333 | 237 |
MARCEL MAUSS 365 | 269 |
GEORGES BATAILLE 373 | 277 |
SIMONE WEIL 383 | 287 |
FRIEDRICH A HAYEK 397 | 301 |
HANNAH ARENDT 417 | 321 |
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| Title | Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present |
| Editor | Patrick Murray |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0415911966, 9780415911962 |
| Length | 486 pages |
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