Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century write by Joel Kaye. This book was released on 2000-10-05. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.
Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion
Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion write by D. Kidner. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
Nature in the History of Economic Thought
Nature in the History of Economic Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature in the History of Economic Thought write by Nathaniel Wolloch. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Nature in the History of Economic Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural physical environment as a resource meant for human use. Focusing on the period 1600-1850, and paying particular attention to major figures including Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, David Ricardo and J.S. Mill, this book provides a detailed overview of the intellectual history of the economic consideration of nature from antiquity to modern times. It shows how even someone like Mill, who was clearly influenced by romantic notions regarding the spiritual need for contact with pristine nature, ultimately regarded it as an economic resource. Building on existing scholarship, this study demonstrates how the rise of modern sensitivity to nature, from the late eighteenth century in particular, was in fact a dialectical reaction to the growing distance of modern urban civilization from the natural environment. As such, the book offers an unprecedentedly detailed overview of the intellectual history of economic considerations of nature, whilst underlining how the history of this topic has been remarkably consistent.
Medieval Economic Thought
Medieval Economic Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Economic Thought write by Diana Wood. This book was released on 2002-10-17. Medieval Economic Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.
Gilding the Market
Gilding the Market - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilding the Market write by Susan Mosher Stuard. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Gilding the Market available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe became a matter of pressing concern, especially when the market caught on and became awash in cheaper editions of luxury wares. Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequent era of plague, return of plague, and increased warfare. A fine sensitivity to the demands of "le pompe," that is, the public display of private wealth, infected town life. The quest for luxuries affected markets by enlarging exchange activity and encouraging retail trades. As both consumers and tradesmen, local goldsmiths, long-distance traders, bankers, and money changers played important roles in creating this new age of fashion. In response to a greater public display of luxury goods, civic sumptuary laws were written to curb spending and extreme fashion, but these were aimed at women, youth, and children, leaving townsmen largely unrestricted in their consumption. With erudition, grace, and an evocative selection of illustrations, some reproduced in full color, Susan Mosher Stuard explores the arrival of fashion in European history.
