{"product_id":"idioms-of-self-interest","title":"Idioms of Self Interest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIdioms of Self-Interest\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and rewarded for risk-taking enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on women’s wills, merchants’ tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that focus on \u003cem\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEastward Ho!,\u003c\/em\u003e and Whitney’s \u003cem\u003eWyll and Testament\u003c\/em\u003e, it finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest. Authors also register this stress as the failure of economic systems that deny self-interest, as in the overwrought paternalistic systems depicted in Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/em\u003e and Francis Bacon’s \u003cem\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were more flexible and innovative than appears at first glance, and it argues that the notion of self-interest is a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245200396632,"sku":"9780415879392","price":63.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415879392.jpg?v=1769622330","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/idioms-of-self-interest","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}