Politics in Commercial Society : : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / / Istvan Hont; ed. by Michael Sonenscher, Béla Kapossy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Hont, Istvan,
• HerausgeberIn: Kapossy, Béla,; Sonenscher, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Editors’ Introduction --; A Note on the Text --; 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem --; 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem --; 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? --; 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? --; 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands --; 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286177; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286177
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Istvan Hont; ed. by Michael Sonenscher, Béla Kapossy.

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.