Tocqueville's Political Economy / / Richard Swedberg.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's Political Economy, Richard Swedbe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 25 halftones. 1 line illus. 5 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Economy of the New World
  • Chapter Two. The Other Democratic Economy
  • Chapter Three. Tocqueville's Background in Economics
  • Chapter Four. Tocqueville's Approach to Economic Analysis
  • Chapter Five. Pauperism and the Habits of Property
  • Chapter Six. Politics in a Democratic Economy
  • Chapter Seven. Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs
  • Chapter Eight. Threats to the Democratic Economy
  • Chapter Nine. Sorrento and the Return to Thinking
  • Chapter Ten. The Economy of the Old World
  • Epilogue. Thinking with Tocqueville
  • Notes
  • Index