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Paperback The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment Book

ISBN: 1503614824

ISBN13: 9781503614826

The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment

(Part of the Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times Series)

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How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate...

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