Post tag : Samuel Pufendorf

  • The Conflicting Orientations of the Early American Republic

    The Conflicting Orientations of the Early American Republic

    Is the economy a driving force behind democracy or its gravedigger? – Article 3 American independence and the adoption of the federal Constitution constitute two successive and distinct moments in the birth of the United States. From the resolutions of the First Continental Congress in 1774, through the Declaration of Independence in 1776, to the Constitution…

  • Interests as the driving forces of social recomposition in eighteenth-century Great Britain

    Interests as the driving forces of social recomposition in eighteenth-century Great Britain

    At the Origins of the Valorisation of the Economy (15th–19th Centuries) – Article 4 In eighteenth-century Great Britain, the word “interest” condenses heterogeneous realities that we now distinguish in order to avoid confusion. First, there is financial interest, an instrumental category and the primary one etymologically, which designates the temporal cost of a debt. It…