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2014 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BEES AND SILKWORMS: MANDEVILLE, HUME, AND THE FRAMING OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2015

Margaret Schabas
Margaret Schabas*
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Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Abstract

Mandeville and Hume advance similar framings for their political economy, using emergentist and proto-sociological lines of analysis. They are less aligned with liberalism (political, economic, or metaphysical) than mercantilism, insofar as they favor balance-of-trade arguments and urbanization. They are both methodological holists, not individualists. It is the group, not individual agents, that figures at the core of their thought.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 1 - 15
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