Jose R Torre: 1 book
The Political Economy of Sentiment
Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.
