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Needs and passions of human subsistence in the moral economy of the early 18th century: Defoe and Mandeville

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  • Antonella Picchio

    (Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

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In this paper human subsistence is used as focal perspective. Working on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mandeville’s Fable we speculate on the role of passions in shaping the structural dynamics of the economic system. Subsistence is here seen as a historical process of ‘making’ an individual and collective life. In this perspective the ‘man and society’ relationship – the analytical focus of eighteenth-century social theorists – emerges as grounded in the struggle for daily living and reWnement and shaped by the tensions inherent in historical practices of self control and social governance.

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  • Antonella Picchio, 2003. "Needs and passions of human subsistence in the moral economy of the early 18th century: Defoe and Mandeville," History of Economic Ideas, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 11(2), pages 7-29.
    • Handle: RePEc:hid:journl:v:11:y:2003:2:1:p:7-29
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    1. Jimena Hurtado, 2023. "Bernard Mandeville: Wealth beyond Vice and Virtue," Documentos CEDE 20684, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.

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