Consumption as an Investment
Published on 13. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-0-415-64693-2 (ISBN)
Description
Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This ambitious project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies into the mainstream of economic thought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-64693-2 (9780415646932)
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Cosimo Perrotta
Consumption as an Investment
Book
08/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
€433.10
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Person
Cosimo Perrotta
Content
Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: the legacy of the past, 2 The Ancients and inner wealth, 3 Patristics: end of the contempt for wealth and labour, 4 Medieval dualism: poverty as an ideal; wealth as a practical goal, 5 Italian humanism ignores economic development, 6 From alms to human capital: the poor in sixteenth century Spain and England, 7 Spain's unproductive consumption, 8 Expanding production: a (fearful) hunger for goods, 9 Productive and unproductive labour, 10 Foreign trade: fostering productive consumption/productive labour, 11 The Enlightenment theory of development: consumption as an investment, Notes, References, Subject index, Name index