Jeffrey Sklansky: 2 books
The Soul's Economy
Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism.
For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition...
Sovereign of the Market
The Money Question in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the “money question” shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how...