Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science: 68 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 68) - Hardcover

Pierre Force

 
9780521830607: Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science: 68 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 68)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521830605 ISBN 13: 9780521830607
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

A conceptual and historical inquiry into the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith.

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About the Author

Pierre Force received his academic training in France, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took his BA (1979), doctorate (1987), and habilitation (1994) at the Sorbonne. He first came to the United States in 1984 as a lecturer at Yale University, and he joined the Columbia faculty in 1987. His field of research is seventeenth and eighteenth-century intellectual history. He is the author of Le Problème herméneutique chez Pascal (Paris: Vrin, 1989), Molière ou Le Prix des choses (Paris: Nathan, 1994), and Self-Interest before Adam Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521830605
ISBN 13 
9780521830607
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
298

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