1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467476803321

Autore

Vasudevan Shriram K.

Titolo

Computer networking / / Shriram K. Vasudevan [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Alpha Science International Ltd., , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78332-099-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

004.6

Soggetti

Computer networks

Local area networks (Computer networks)

Wide area networks (Computer networks)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809040303321

Autore

Coleman Charly

Titolo

The spirit of french capitalism : economic theology in the age of enlightenment / / Charly Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-1483-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times

Disciplina

261.8508828244

Soggetti

Capitalism - History - France - 18th century

Economics - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Capitalism - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

France Church history 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Economy of the Mysteries -- CHAPTER 2 Perpetual Penance and Frequent Communion -- CHAPTER 3 The Spirit of Speculation -- CHAPTER 4 Usury Redeemed -- CHAPTER 5 The Cult of Consumption -- CHAPTER 6 Luxury and the Origins of the Fetish -- EPILOGUE Encounters with Economic Theology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that-in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"-privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the



rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.