Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

MikkelThorup is Associate Professor of history of political and economic thought atthe University of Aarhus, Denmark. His publications include Pro Bono (2015), The Total Enemy (2015), IntellectualHistory of Terror (2010) and Rousseauand Revolution (2010). His research concentrates at present on the historyof everyday economics.

• .- Introduction: Profitingfrom Words Mikkel Thorup .- Chapter 1: The Greed ofGold – Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals Jakob Bek-Thomsen .- Chapter 2: Tradeis a Kind of Warfare – Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of JosiahChild Mathias Hein Jessen .- Chapter 3: The Wedel-Jarlsberg-controversy – Defendingthe Existing Order Against the Reform-Movement in Late 18th CenturyDenmark Eva Krause Jørgensen .- Chapter 4: The Emergence of the Concept “PoliticalEconomy” Nicolai von Eggers .- Chapter 5: Equilibrium,Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen.- Chapter 6:Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution Jonas Ross Kjærgård .- Chapter 7: PoliticalEconomy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain  Thomas Palmelund Johansen .- Chapter 8: The Crisisis the Social Organism’s Mastering of Itself – A Conceptual and EconomicHistory of the Problem of Crisis  Bue Rübner Hansen .- Chapter 9: When FinanceBecame Productive, Scientific and Liberating – a Moral History of FinancialSpeculation Christian Olaf Christiansen .- Chapter 10: TheEconomics of Starvation – Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India Rune Møller Stahl .- Chapter 11: The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administrationin Egypt and Nigeria 1882-1914 Casper Andersen .- Chapter 12:Talkingthe Creative Economy into Being Jan Løhmann Stephensen .- Chapter 13: Retweet This – Participation,Collective production and New Paradigms of Cultural Production   LouiseFabian and Jaron Rowan.