This article documents the sudden creation of a significant entrepôt for French wine, particularly Bordeaux claret, in Boulogne-Sur-Mer starting in 1720. Scottish Jacobites who practiced a rebellious version of "fair trade" dominated this commerce, and their network had direct links to...

Economic development is the result of various factors operating in space and time. For some time now, economics has been looking more closely at the role played by institutions as a driving and propelling force behind economic development. More recently, the action carried out by intermediate...

Philosophy and Leadership is an ambitious exploration of leadership's philosophical underpinnings from antiquity to the AI-driven future. The book journeys through history, gleaning insights from eminent philosophers and contextualizing their teachings to leadership. The book's foundational...

Economic development is the result of various factors operating in space and time. For some time now, economics has been looking more closely at the role played by institutions as a driving and propelling force behind economic development. More recently, the action carried out by intermediate...

Austrian economist Ludwig Mises’s central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O’Neill, Uebel, and others have drawn particular attention to Mises’s pertinent encounter with one of the most colorful...

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...

Forschungsgegenstand der Wirtschaftsphilosophie sind die Praxen der Wirtschaft und die Theorien, die sich mit Wirtschaft beschäftigen. Wir haben dieses Forschungsfeld mit verschiedenen Varianten einer Vier-Felder-Matrix aufgefächert, um deutlich zu machen, dass sowohl die Theoretische...

We find that Chinese public firms surrounded by a higher number of Buddhist and Taoist temples are associated with relatively lower expected default risk (EDF). In contrast to the widely documented impact of Western religiosity on corporate behaviors, our mechanism tests indicate that lower EDF...

Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight the concreteness of these changes, he sees population growth as the way to measure this betterment...

Forschungsgegenstand der Wirtschaftsphilosophie sind die Praxen der Wirtschaft und die Theorien, die sich mit Wirtschaft beschäftigen. Wir haben dieses Forschungsfeld mit verschiedenen Varianten einer Vier-Felder-Matrix aufgefächert, um deutlich zu machen, dass sowohl die Theoretische...

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...

Current Pinkerian views about the Enlightenment continue a tradition that made it possible to base economic theory on far-fetched assumptions and still appear reasonable to a majority. This was an approach that would make it possible to create theories tailor-made to fit the vested interests of...

Background: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) questions have become increasingly prominent in the fields of ecotoxicology and public health. More crucially, exposure to long-chain PFASs frequently produces developmental toxicity, prompting the large-scale production and use of...

In November 2021, Suzhou Industrial Park State-Owned Assets Holding Development Co. Ltd. issued a free trade zone (FTZ) offshore bond in Shanghai FTZ. This bond issuance included various innovative attempts, representing a move to implement national strategies such as Yangtze River Delta...

Introduction -- A Compromising Preacher: Butler as a Proto-Political Economist -- Formation of Butler’s Moral Theology as a Foundation of Commercial Society -- Commercial Society and Religion: Butler, Paley and Priestley -- Butler’s Defence of the Authority of Conscience -- Theories of...

PART ONE: A BLESSED OLD AGE -- Chapter 1: DO YOU BELIEVE IN PENSIONS? -- Chapter 2: LONGEVITY RISK AND RELIGION -- Chapter 3: THE BENEFITS OF POOLING -- PART TWO: CHURCH & UNIVERSITY -- Chapter 4: AN ENLIGHTENED FINANCIAL INNOVATION -- Chapter 5: A PRESBYTERIAN SCHEME FOR MINISTERS -- Chapter 6:...

"Tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, Agnes Gehbald provides a comprehensive study of print culture in Peru in the decades before Independence. An important volume for those interested in the history of books beyond the European market."

"Exploring different understandings of stewardship across a range of research domains and cultures, this insightful book examines the tensions between competing perspectives and their implications for leadership. Marian Iszatt-White proposes 'leadership-as-stewardship' as a new signifier for...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Hayek and Chinese Liberalism -- Chapter 2: The Road to Serfdom and Cold War Liberalism in Taiwan and Mainland China -- Chapter 3: “China’s Hayek” and the Liberal Lessons in Gu Zhun’s Thought under Totalitarian Rule -- Chapter 4: True Individualism, Dispersed...

Prelude. From scholasticism to the Enlightenment / Thierry Demals & Gilbert Faccarello -- Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundation of 'Laissez-faire' / Gilbert Faccarello -- John Law and the Mississippi System / Antoin E. Murphy -- Science of trade and 'commerce politique' / Thierry Demals --...

Austrian economist Ludwig Mises's central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O'Neill, Uebel, and others have drawn particular attention to Mises's pertinent encounter with one of the most colorful...

This paper considers some of the most important political philosophers of the Enlightenment (taken as broad concept) – thinkers whose reflections on the idea of a social contract we relate to their views on taxation. Hobbes argues for an (almost) absolute political sovereignty and legal...

This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the...

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on "Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism," a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.

I analyze the Renaissance art market in Italy through a unique dataset on primary commissions between 1285 and 1550. Hedonic regressions on the real price of paintings allow me to advance evidence that the art market was to a large extent competitive, and that an important determinant of...

We formulate one methodology to put a value or price on knowledge using well accepted techniques from finance. We provide justifications for these finance principles based on the limitations of the physical world we live in. We start with the intuition for our method to value knowledge and then...

What does Hume mean by liberty? Though clearly important to him, Hume never clarifies the matter explicitly. In his texts, liberty often seems to be a matter of government rules being certain, general, regular, etc., and often a matter of political form or constitution—the place of parliament...

Based on the data of four agricultural census of the United States from 1997 to 2012 and relevant data, this paper has summarized the development and the status quo of the American farms. According to the reality of china’s agricultural development, some suggestions are put forward. First,...

The creation of a social and political order that would be based on reason and have no place for exclusion and domination was arguably the most important preoccupation of many thinkers of the Enlightenment. This project, which has been appropriately named the Enlightenment project, has been and...

The objective of the present paper is to estimate the state of anticorruption enlightenment in the Russian Federation subjects and to elaborate proposals (recommendations) for improving this tool within the anticorruption activity of the regional state power bodies.The key tasks of the research...

This paper analyzes the optimal content regulation of direct-to-consumer advertisement (DTCA) in a pharmaceutical market, with particular focus on the distinction between product and enlightenment advertisement. Firms are allowed to freely promote their own specific products under product DTCA,...