An Age of Risk : : Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain / / Emily Nacol.
In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seve...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. "Experience Concludeth Nothing Universally". Hobbes and the Groundwork for a Political Theory of Risk
- Chapter Three. The Risks of Political Authority. Trust, Knowledge, and Political Agency in Locke's Politics and Economy
- Chapter Four. Hume's Fine Balance. On Probability, Fear, and the Risks of Trade
- Chapter Five. Adventurous Spirits and Clamoring Sophists. Smith on the Problem of Risk in Political Economy
- Chapter Six. An Age of Risk, a Liberalism of Anxiety
- Notes
- References
- Index