LEADER 04093nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910454965303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15785-X 010 $a9786612157851 010 $a1-4008-3008-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830084 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788451 035 $a(EBL)457925 035 $a(OCoLC)438739607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192610 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191125 035 $a(PQKB)11303265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457925 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36559 035 $a(DE-B1597)446928 035 $a(OCoLC)979741917 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830084 035 $a(PPN)170269663 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457925 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312585 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215785 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788451 100 $a20090910d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTocqueville's political economy$b[electronic resource] /$fRichard Swedberg 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17801-1 311 $a0-691-13299-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-336) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. The Economy of the New World -- $tChapter Two. The Other Democratic Economy -- $tChapter Three. Tocqueville's Background in Economics -- $tChapter Four. Tocqueville's Approach to Economic Analysis -- $tChapter Five. Pauperism and the Habits of Property -- $tChapter Six. Politics in a Democratic Economy -- $tChapter Seven. Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs -- $tChapter Eight. Threats to the Democratic Economy -- $tChapter Nine. Sorrento and the Return to Thinking -- $tChapter Ten. The Economy of the Old World -- $tEpilogue. Thinking with Tocqueville -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's Political Economy, Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that still has much to teach us today. Through careful readings of Tocqueville's two major books and many of his other writings, Swedberg lays bare Tocqueville's ingenious way of thinking about major economic phenomena. At the center of Democracy in America, Tocqueville produced a magnificent analysis of the emerging entrepreneurial economy that he found during his 1831-32 visit to the United States. More than two decades later, in The Old Regime and the Revolution, Tocqueville made the complementary argument that it was France's blocked economy and society that led to the Revolution of 1789. In between the publication of these great works, Tocqueville also produced many lesser-known writings on such topics as property, consumption, and moral factors in economic life. When examined together, Swedberg argues, these books and other writings constitute an interesting alternative model of economic thinking, as well as a major contribution to political economy that deserves a place in contemporary discussions about the social effects of economics. 606 $aEconomics$xPolitical aspects 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 676 $a330 700 $aSwedberg$b Richard$0121427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454965303321 996 $aTocqueville's political economy$92472982 997 $aUNINA