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An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
Emily C. Nacol
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Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; JP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 260 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control. In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from ... Read more
In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control. In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165103
SKU
V9780691165103
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About Emily C. Nacol
Emily C. Nacol is assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.
Reviews for An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
This fine study will repay the attention of those who want to understand early modern political philosophy as well as those seeking to puzzle out the native human ambivalence about risk.
-Thomas W. Merrill, Review of Politics An Age of Risk reconstructs the role of risk and uncertainty in regulating the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith, to ... Read more
-Thomas W. Merrill, Review of Politics An Age of Risk reconstructs the role of risk and uncertainty in regulating the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith, to ... Read more