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An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain by Emily Nacol (Hardcover, 2016)
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In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making.
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In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, politicalProduct Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-139780691165103
eBay Product ID (ePID)226784745
Product Key Features
Book TitleAn Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
AuthorEmily Nacol
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy, History
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width152mm
Item Weight425g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorEmily Nacol
Topic AreaPolitical Science
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
