This book explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present.
This book explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present.
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: the legacy of the past 2 The Ancients and inner wealth 3 Patristics: end of the contempt for wealth and labour 4 Medieval dualism: poverty as an ideal; wealth as a practical goal 5 Italian humanism ignores economic development 6 From alms to human capital: the poor in sixteenth century Spain and England 7 Spain's unproductive consumption 8 Expanding production: a (fearful) hunger for goods 9 Productive and unproductive labour 10 Foreign trade: fostering productive consumption/productive labour 11 The Enlightenment theory of development: consumption as an investment Notes References Subject index Name index
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: the legacy of the past 2 The Ancients and inner wealth 3 Patristics: end of the contempt for wealth and labour 4 Medieval dualism: poverty as an ideal; wealth as a practical goal 5 Italian humanism ignores economic development 6 From alms to human capital: the poor in sixteenth century Spain and England 7 Spain's unproductive consumption 8 Expanding production: a (fearful) hunger for goods 9 Productive and unproductive labour 10 Foreign trade: fostering productive consumption/productive labour 11 The Enlightenment theory of development: consumption as an investment Notes References Subject index Name index
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