Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Mikkel Thorup is Associate Professor of history of political and economic thought at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Pro Bono (2015), The Total Enemy (2015), Intellectual History of Terror (2010) and Rousseau and Revolution (2010). His research concentrates at present on the history of everyday economics.

.- Introduction: Profiting
from Words Mikkel Thorup .- Chapter 1: The Greed of
Gold – Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen .- Chapter 2: Trade
is a Kind of Warfare – Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of Josiah
Child Mathias Hein Jessen .- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy – Defending
the Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18th Century
Denmark Eva Krause Jørgensen .- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept “Political
Economy” Nicolai von Eggers .- Chapter 5: Equilibrium,
Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen.- Chapter 6:
Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution Jonas Ross Kjærgård .- Chapter 7: Political
Economy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain  Thomas Palmelund Johansen .- Chapter 8: The Crisis
is the Social Organism’s Mastering of Itself – A Conceptual and Economic
History of the Problem of Crisis  Bue Rübner Hansen .- Chapter 9: When Finance
Became Productive, Scientific and Liberating – a Moral History of Financial
Speculation Christian Olaf Christiansen .- Chapter 10: The
Economics of Starvation – Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune Møller Stahl .- Chapter 11: The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administration
in Egypt and Nigeria 1882-1914 Casper Andersen .- Chapter 12:
Talking
the Creative Economy into Being Jan Løhmann Stephensen .- Chapter 13: Retweet This – Participation,
Collective production and New Paradigms of Cultural Production   Louise
Fabian and Jaron Rowan.