Overview
- Utilises empirical research to enrich conceptual and theoretical work
- Uses a comparative perspective to compare different periods and parts of the world
- Undertakes a qualitative analysis to enable the book to draw links between economic history and cultural economics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are explored from antiquity through to the 20th century. The long-term trajectory and comparative perspective allows for moral economy to be seen in relation to ancient Greek commerce, medieval pawn-broking, Christian and Jewish economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in modern American capitalism, and Catholic attitudes toward taxation.
This book aims to provide insight into how moral thinking about the economy and economic practicehas evolved from a long historic perspective. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history and cultural economics.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Antiquity and Middle Ages
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Early Modern Period
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Modern Period
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Conclusion
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tanja Skambraks is Professor of Medieval History at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. Her second book is about “Charitable Credit: the Monti di Pietà, Franciscan Economic Ethics and Poor Relief in late medieval Italy (15th and 16th century)”. Her research and publications focus on economic and social history, especially financial and banking history as well as methodology, material culture and the history of rituals.
Martin Lutz is a social and economic historian at Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published on German-Soviet economic relations, the transnational Siemens family and its globalization strategies in the 19th century and German exploitation of Ukraine during World War II. His current work looks at religion in modern capitalism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reassessing the Moral Economy
Book Subtitle: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century
Editors: Tanja Skambraks, Martin Lutz
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29834-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29833-2Published: 07 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29836-3Published: 24 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29834-9Published: 06 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Cultural Economics, Social History