Early Debates about Industry: Voltaire and His Contemporaries
Description
Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of heated debates in France and other European countries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century.
Keywords
VOLTAIRE, 1694-1778INDUSTRIAL POLICY_FRANCEINDUSTRIALIZATION
2005Book
Author(s)Florian Schui
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403947994
LanguageEnglish
