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Tocqueville's political economy
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ISBN: 9780691132990 0691132992 9786612157851 128215785X 1400830087 9781400830084 0691178011 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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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 Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that still has much to teach us today. Through careful readings of Tocqueville's two major books and many of his other writings, Swedberg lays bare Tocqueville's ingenious way of thinking about major economic phenomena. At the center of Democracy in America, Tocqueville produced a magnificent analysis of the emerging entrepreneurial economy that he found during his 1831-32 visit to the United States. More than two decades later, in The Old Regime and the Revolution, Tocqueville made the complementary argument that it was France's blocked economy and society that led to the Revolution of 1789. In between the publication of these great works, Tocqueville also produced many lesser-known writings on such topics as property, consumption, and moral factors in economic life. When examined together, Swedberg argues, these books and other writings constitute an interesting alternative model of economic thinking, as well as a major contribution to political economy that deserves a place in contemporary discussions about the social effects of economics.

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Tocqueville, de, Alexis --- Economics --- Economie politique et politique --- Economie politique --- Political aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Aspect sociologique --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --- Views on economics. --- Economics - Political aspects. --- Economics - Sociological aspects. --- Economics --Political aspects. --- Economics --Sociological aspects. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Views on economics. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --1805-1859 --Views on economics. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --1805-1859. --Ancien re ́gime et la re ́volution. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --1805-1859. --De la de ́mocratie en Ame ́rique. --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Political aspects --- Sociological aspects --- AA / International- internationaal --- FR / France - Frankrijk --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 321.60 --- 320.1 --- 330.40 --- 330.580 --- 330.45 --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Geschiedenis van het economisch en sociaal denken --- Evolution historique de la pensée économique et sociale: généralités --- History of the economic and social thinking --- 330.40 Geschiedenis van het economisch en sociaal denken --- 330.40 Evolution historique de la pensée économique et sociale: généralités --- 330.40 History of the economic and social thinking --- Regeringsstelsels en -methodes: algemeenheden. --- Politieke wetenschap. Politieke leerstelsels. --- Geschiedenis van het economisch en sociaal denken. --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden. --- Socialisten en interventionisten, christelijke sociale figuren kenmerkend voor de XIXe eeuw. --- Social aspects --- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de, --- Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ de, --- De Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ, --- Tokvilʹ, Aleksis de, --- De Tocqueville, Alexis, --- Tokuviru, Alexis, de, --- Toqueville, Alexis de, --- טוקוויל, אלכסיס דה --- توكڤيل، ألكسي دو، --- Clérel, Alexis Henri Charles de, --- Politieke wetenschap. Politieke leerstelsels --- Regeringsstelsels en -methodes: algemeenheden --- Socialisten en interventionisten, christelijke sociale figuren kenmerkend voor de XIXe eeuw --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden --- E-books --- Tūkvīl, Āliksī dū, --- توکويل، آلکسى دو

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