Joost Hengstmengel

Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780367729684
• ISBN-10: 0367729687
• Artikelnr.: 69893332

Autorenporträt

Joost Hengstmengel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The history of divine providence 3. International trade:
God's universal economy 4. Division of labour: the divine ordering of
society 5. Value and price: a providential abundance of necessities 6.
Self-interest: the invisible hand of God 7. Poverty and inequality: rich
and poor God-willed 8. Conclusions