Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
1 Markets in historical contexts: ideas, practices and governance......Page 13
The turn to governance......Page 18
Embedded markets: networks, traditions and ideals......Page 22
Theorizing economic governance......Page 31
2 Improving justice: communities of norms in the Great Transformation......Page 37
Making peasants modern: improvement and its practices in the eighteenth century......Page 40
Conclusion......Page 55
The limits of the received story......Page 58
The meaning of political economy before the Revolution......Page 63
Rousseau’s modern republicanism for small states......Page 66
Physiocracy as a Christian critique of modernity......Page 69
The innovative political economy of the 1790s......Page 73
‘Modern’ versus ‘democratic’ republicanism......Page 76
4 Tories and markets: Britain 1800–1850......Page 82
5 Guild theory and guild organization in France and Germany during the nineteenth century......Page 102
6 Thinking green, nineteenth-century style: John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin......Page 117
Mill’s neo-Malthusian environmentalism......Page 119
Romantic environmentalism......Page 123
A non-Christian environmentalist ethic......Page 127
Ruskin’s environmentalism......Page 131
Economic man, market failure and welfare economics......Page 135
I......Page 141
II......Page 144
III......Page 150
IV......Page 152
8 German historicism, progressive social thought, and the interventionist state in the United States since the 1880s......Page 157
The German historical school and American genteel reform......Page 159
Historicizing capitalism......Page 163
Relativizing morality......Page 165
The rejection of liberal reform......Page 166
The ethical potential of industrial capitalism......Page 169
Progressive democracy and the state......Page 171
Two conceptions of progressive democracy......Page 174
Progressive thought and US social policy......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 180
9 Civilizing markets: traditions of consumer politics in twentieth-century Britain, Japan and the United States......Page 182
The ideological foundations of consumer politics at the turn of the twentieth century......Page 183
Consumer politics in transformation......Page 193
Consumerism after world war II......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 212
Introduction......Page 214
Embedded markets, Indian policy reform and the ideological context......Page 215
Contested conceptions of swadeshi......Page 223
Governance, Mandir politics and the redefinition of swadeshi......Page 229
Conclusion......Page 233
11 The locational and institutional embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of the global capital markets......Page 236
Has the ultimate market arrived?......Page 237
The market for capital today......Page 238
In the digital era: more concentration than dispersal?......Page 245
The continuing utility of spatial agglomeration......Page 248
The global capital market and the state......Page 253
Conclusion......Page 257
Index......Page 259