Natural Law and the Origin of Political Economy : Samuel Pufendorf and the History of Economics
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Childhood and Education -- A True European -- Doctrines of Political Economy -- Diffusion of Pufendorf's Economic Ideas -- Early French Philosophers and Pufendorf -- Scottish Followers of Pufendorf -- How could Pufendorf be Overlooked? -- Pufendorf the Grandfather of Political Economy -- Note -- PART I: Childhood and Education -- 1. Childhood: Turbulent Times -- Notes -- 2. University Education in Leipzig and Jena -- Notes -- 3. A Creative Imprisonment in Copenhagen -- Notes -- PART II: A True European -- 4. Academic Career -- Pufendorf as Professor at the University of Heidelberg -- Pufendorf as Professor at the University of Lund -- Pufendorf as Historiographer in Stockholm -- Pufendorf as Historiographer in Berlin -- Notes -- 5. A Champion of the Enlightenment -- Pufendorf's Writings -- Grotius and his Followers Selden, Hobbes and Cumberland -- Pufendorf's System of Natural Law -- Notes -- PART III: Doctrines of Political Economy -- 6. Method of Analysis -- The Method used in Elementorum Jurisprudentiae Universalis -- The Method used in De Jure Naturae et Gentium -- The Social Life of Man -- The Certainty of Moral Science -- Notes -- 7. Theory of Human Behaviour -- Man's Distinctive Light of Intelligence -- Man Should Be Governed by Law -- The Natural State of Man -- The True Basis for the Law of Nature -- Self-Interest - Man's First Human Attribute -- Sociability - Man's Second Human Attribute -- Man's Duties towards Himself -- Man's Duties Toward Other Men -- Discounted Value of Damage -- All Men Are Equal -- Notes -- 8. Private Property and the Four-Stages Theory -- The Right and the Power of Men -- The Origin of Property -- The Role of an Agreement or Pact -- The Four-Stages Theory -- Notes