Economic Sentiments

Emma Rothschild is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Director of the Center for History and Economics, King's College.

Introduction 1. Economic Dispositions The History of Sentiments Civilized and Commercial Society The Unfrightened Mind Two Kinds of Enlightenment The Devil Himself Heroic Dispositions A Sort of Inner Shuddering The Cold Light of Reason and the Warmth of Economic Life Seeing the State as in a Picture Indulgence and Indifference The Light of History The Enlightenment and the Present 2. Adam Smith and Conservative Economics This Famous Philosopher Scotland in the 1790s Economic and Political Freedom The Liberal Reward of Labor One-Sided Rationalistic Liberalism Smith's Real Sentiments 3. Commerce and the State A Reciprocal Dependence Scarcities, Dearths, and Famines Poverty and General Equilibrium Turgot's Policies against Famine Interpretations of Smith and Turgot The Lapse of Time 4. Apprenticeship and Insecurity A Strange Adventure It Is But Equity, Besides Corporations and Competition Education and Apprenticeship A State of Nonage The Apprenticeship: A Digression on the Slave Trade Uncertain Jurisprudence History and Institutions 5. The Bloody and Invisible Hand The Invisible Hand of Jupiter Tremble, Unfortunate King! Intentions and Interests Political Influence Clerical Systems Smith's "Stoicism" Order and Design A Persuasive Device Explanation and Understanding Greatest Possible Values Evolved Orders Two Shortcomings of Liberal Thought 6. Economic and Political Choice Raton Was Quite Astonished... General Economic Interdependence Giving the Impression of Doing Nothing The Soul Discouraged Poverty, Taxes, and Unsalubrious Factories Formal Methods Social Choice and Economic Procedures Discussions and Constitutions Pelion and Ossa 7. Condorcet and the Conflict of Values Cold, Descriptive Cartesian Reason Diversity and Uniformity The Indissoluble Chain Civilized Conflict Inconsistent Universalism Domestic Virtues The Imaginary Enlightenment The Liberty of Thought and Discussion 8. A Fatherless World A Different Enlightenment Smith and Condorcet Uncertainty and Irresolution A System of Sentiments Civilized Political Discussion Economic Sentiments A World Unrestored Suitable Equality Notes Acknowledgments Index