Courses

The goal of this seminar is to discuss the relationship between economics and politics in eighteenth-century debates about political economy. The focus is on primary texts (Mandeville, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Say). We will also introduce students to some of the most influential historiography, with a discussion of the principal concepts used in eighteenth-century intellectual history, such as republicanism, civic humanism, neo-Stoicism, neo-Epicureanism, the Montesquieu-Steuart doctrine, and doux commerce.