Emma Rothschild
Biographic Data
| ID | 207279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Rothschild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothschild |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHSCHILD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The King's College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Smith at 300: Useless Companies
This observation is from an obscure backwater of the Wealth of Nations. It is about companies that were archaic even in 1776: the Russian Company, the Eastland Company, the Hamburgh Company, chartered in Britain in the sixteenth century, and trading mainly in the Baltic. But the comments on regulated companies are a revealing epitome of Adam Smith’s thought. There is the artful language, and one can almost hear Smith’s ironic tone as he dictated …
Wartime in the history of economic thought: Episodes in European history
The paper is concerned with war in the history of economic thought. It looks at disputes about abstraction versus historicism over the long 19th century, in relation to war and the state. It then looks at the historical setting in which Léon Walras and others developed their ideas of political economy. It concludes with reflections on the presence or absence of the state in modern economic history
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late …
Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
A (New) Economic History of the American Revolution
The article suggests that The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution can be the point of departure for a new economic history that combines the history of economic thought, economic-cultural history, especially of long-distance connections, and the history of ordinary exchanges in economic life
Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France
The Essential Hirschman
This book brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. The author was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who c…
Late Atlantic History
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and ex…
Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact
The idea of sustainability is an odd composite of imagination and accounting. Environmental history is a permissive historical subdiscipline, and this essay is about the environmental–economic–intellectual history of an environmental idea, sustainability, which is historical in the sense that it is very old, and historical, too, in the sense that it is an idea about history, or about imagining the future in relation to the past. One of the odditi…
Forum: The Idea of Sustainability Introduction
The encounter of environmental history and intellectual history is a union of two insidiously oceanic inquiries. “Oceanic” in the sense of limitlessness, or oneness with the universe. “All history is the history of thought”, and the history of thought is in modern intellectual history a universal investigation, of advertisements for sofas and Ayn Rand and adoption laws in early colonial Bihar. But all history is also the history of space, and of …
Adam Smith’s Economics
Adam Smith's writings on economic subjects - to adapt the title that his closest friends gave to his posthumously published Essays on Philosophical Subjects - are diverse, discursive, and interspersed with almost everything else that he wrote. Economic life, for Smith, was intricately interconnected with the rest of life, or with the life of politics, sentiment, and imagination. Economic thought was interconnected with the rest of thought, or wit…
A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic
The administration of the economist and statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, which began in the summer of 1774 and ended in his dismissal in 1776, is one of the most celebrated lost opportunities in the history of France. ‘I perpetually recurred to them as others do to a favourite poet’, John Stuart Mill wrote of the scenes depicted in Condorcet’s Vie de M. Turgot, ‘one of the wisest and noblest of lives, delineated by one of the wisest and nobl…
Language and empire, c.1800
Emma Rothschild is director of the Centre for History and Economics at Kingâ s College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. Recent publications include Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001), "Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces" (Modern Intellectual History, 2004) and â Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangersâ (The Ne…
Condorcet and Modernity
The Marquis de Condorcet's most famous work, his posthumously published Tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, was described by its first editors, in 1795, as a “monument” to “the most useful truths.” He has been seen, ever since, as an exemplary figure; an emblem of enlightenment and its illusions. His political ideas, in particular, have been rediscovered and reburied at fairly regular, resonant intervals throughout the course of th…
Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Provinces
The paper is concerned with disputes over sovereignty and global commerce in the 1760s and 1770s. The eighteenth-century revolution in economic science has been identified with agricultural reforms, and with the definition of national economies. The economists of the time, including Turgot, Mirabeau, Dupont de Nemours, Baudeau and Adam Smith, were also intensely interested in the merchant sovereigns of the French, English and Dutch East India com…
Common Security and Civil Society in Africa
This book is the outcome of a conference on Common Security and Civil Society in Africa, held in 1997, and organised jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Common Security Forum, based at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. The idea that security is to be achieved by cooperation more than by confrontation, and that it is an economic and social as well as a mil…
The Age of Insubordination
Globalization and the Return of History
An Alarming Commercial Crisis in Eighteenth-century Angouleme: Sentiments in Economic History
El debate sobre la seguridad económica y social a finales del siglo XVIII: Lecciones de un camino abandonado
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Condorcet and the conflict of values
Condorcet has been seen since the 1790s as the embodiment of the cold, rational Enlightenment. The paper explores his writings on economic policy, voting, and public instruction, and suggests different views both of Condorcet and of the Enlightenment. Condorcet was concerned with individual diversity; he was opposed to proto-utilitarian theories; he considered individual independence, which he described as the characteristic liberty of the modern…
The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons ofa Road Not Taken
The laissez faire political economy of the late eighteenth century was marked by two sharply opposing views of the relation between social security or insecurity and economic growth: one associated with Adam Smith, Turgot and Condorcet; and another associated with Malthus. The latter school, with its faith in the motivating force of insecurity and fear, has been the more influential in subsequent economic thought. But, contrary to prevailing neol…
Echoes of the Malthusian Debate at the Population Summit
In 1793 Condorcet wrote to scientists about the important effect of wasteful consumption the need to improve energy efficiency and the usefulness of recycling. Malthusian notions of the natural laws of population continue to create scientific and literary controversy. Godwins reply to Malthus in 1820 suggests a sustainable population limit of 9000 million. The 1993 World Population Science Summit held in New Delhi set a potential limit of 10 bill…
Social Security and Laissez Faire in Eighteenth-Century Political Economy
The article describes two contrasting developments of Adam Smiths ideas. Condorcet following Turgots reforms of the 1770s described a theory of social equality based on free competition public instruction and social security and proposed a system of social insurance establishments. Malthus in his Essay on Population criticized Condorcets ideal of social security arguing that social insurance would reduce industry and lead to increased population.…
Adam Smith and conservative economics
Common Security and Civil Society in Africa
This book is the outcome of a conference on Common Security and Civil Society in Africa, held in 1997, and organised jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Common Security Forum, based at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. The idea that security is to be achieved by cooperation more than by confrontation, and that it is an economic and social as well as a mil…
Globalization and the Return of History
Food Politics
Late Atlantic History
A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic
The administration of the economist and statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, which began in the summer of 1774 and ended in his dismissal in 1776, is one of the most celebrated lost opportunities in the history of France. ‘I perpetually recurred to them as others do to a favourite poet’, John Stuart Mill wrote of the scenes depicted in Condorcet’s Vie de M. Turgot, ‘one of the wisest and noblest of lives, delineated by one of the wisest and nobl…
Language and empire, c.1800
Emma Rothschild is director of the Centre for History and Economics at Kingâ s College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. Recent publications include Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001), "Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces" (Modern Intellectual History, 2004) and â Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangersâ (The Ne…
Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Provinces
The paper is concerned with disputes over sovereignty and global commerce in the 1760s and 1770s. The eighteenth-century revolution in economic science has been identified with agricultural reforms, and with the definition of national economies. The economists of the time, including Turgot, Mirabeau, Dupont de Nemours, Baudeau and Adam Smith, were also intensely interested in the merchant sovereigns of the French, English and Dutch East India com…
Social Security and Laissez Faire in Eighteenth-Century Political Economy
The article describes two contrasting developments of Adam Smiths ideas. Condorcet following Turgots reforms of the 1770s described a theory of social equality based on free competition public instruction and social security and proposed a system of social insurance establishments. Malthus in his Essay on Population criticized Condorcets ideal of social security arguing that social insurance would reduce industry and lead to increased population.…
Commerce and the State: Turgot, Condorget and Smith
Journal Article Commerce and the State: Turgot, Condorget and Smith Get access Emma Rothschild Emma Rothschild King's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 414, 1 September 1992, Pages 1197–1210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234386 Published: 01 September 1992
Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact
The idea of sustainability is an odd composite of imagination and accounting. Environmental history is a permissive historical subdiscipline, and this essay is about the environmental–economic–intellectual history of an environmental idea, sustainability, which is historical in the sense that it is very old, and historical, too, in the sense that it is an idea about history, or about imagining the future in relation to the past. One of the odditi…
Condorcet and the conflict of values
Condorcet has been seen since the 1790s as the embodiment of the cold, rational Enlightenment. The paper explores his writings on economic policy, voting, and public instruction, and suggests different views both of Condorcet and of the Enlightenment. Condorcet was concerned with individual diversity; he was opposed to proto-utilitarian theories; he considered individual independence, which he described as the characteristic liberty of the modern…
The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons ofa Road Not Taken
The laissez faire political economy of the late eighteenth century was marked by two sharply opposing views of the relation between social security or insecurity and economic growth: one associated with Adam Smith, Turgot and Condorcet; and another associated with Malthus. The latter school, with its faith in the motivating force of insecurity and fear, has been the more influential in subsequent economic thought. But, contrary to prevailing neol…
Forum: The Idea of Sustainability Introduction
The encounter of environmental history and intellectual history is a union of two insidiously oceanic inquiries. “Oceanic” in the sense of limitlessness, or oneness with the universe. “All history is the history of thought”, and the history of thought is in modern intellectual history a universal investigation, of advertisements for sofas and Ayn Rand and adoption laws in early colonial Bihar. But all history is also the history of space, and of …
The Age of Insubordination
An Alarming Commercial Crisis in Eighteenth-century Angouleme: Sentiments in Economic History
Echoes of the Malthusian Debate at the Population Summit
In 1793 Condorcet wrote to scientists about the important effect of wasteful consumption the need to improve energy efficiency and the usefulness of recycling. Malthusian notions of the natural laws of population continue to create scientific and literary controversy. Godwins reply to Malthus in 1820 suggests a sustainable population limit of 9000 million. The 1993 World Population Science Summit held in New Delhi set a potential limit of 10 bill…
Food and Free Enterprise [with Reply]
Food Politics
Haute culture, haute cuisine ou Hang-tcheou-sur-Seine
A divergence hypothesis
Commerce and the State: Turgot, Condorget and Smith
Journal Article Commerce and the State: Turgot, Condorget and Smith Get access Emma Rothschild Emma Rothschild King's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 414, 1 September 1992, Pages 1197–1210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234386 Published: 01 September 1992
Adam Smith and conservative economics
Echoes of the Malthusian Debate at the Population Summit
In 1793 Condorcet wrote to scientists about the important effect of wasteful consumption the need to improve energy efficiency and the usefulness of recycling. Malthusian notions of the natural laws of population continue to create scientific and literary controversy. Godwins reply to Malthus in 1820 suggests a sustainable population limit of 9000 million. The 1993 World Population Science Summit held in New Delhi set a potential limit of 10 bill…
Social Security and Laissez Faire in Eighteenth-Century Political Economy
The article describes two contrasting developments of Adam Smiths ideas. Condorcet following Turgots reforms of the 1770s described a theory of social equality based on free competition public instruction and social security and proposed a system of social insurance establishments. Malthus in his Essay on Population criticized Condorcets ideal of social security arguing that social insurance would reduce industry and lead to increased population.…
El debate sobre la seguridad económica y social a finales del siglo XVIII: Lecciones de un camino abandonado
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Condorcet and the conflict of values
Condorcet has been seen since the 1790s as the embodiment of the cold, rational Enlightenment. The paper explores his writings on economic policy, voting, and public instruction, and suggests different views both of Condorcet and of the Enlightenment. Condorcet was concerned with individual diversity; he was opposed to proto-utilitarian theories; he considered individual independence, which he described as the characteristic liberty of the modern…
The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons ofa Road Not Taken
The laissez faire political economy of the late eighteenth century was marked by two sharply opposing views of the relation between social security or insecurity and economic growth: one associated with Adam Smith, Turgot and Condorcet; and another associated with Malthus. The latter school, with its faith in the motivating force of insecurity and fear, has been the more influential in subsequent economic thought. But, contrary to prevailing neol…
An Alarming Commercial Crisis in Eighteenth-century Angouleme: Sentiments in Economic History
Globalization and the Return of History
The Age of Insubordination
Common Security and Civil Society in Africa
This book is the outcome of a conference on Common Security and Civil Society in Africa, held in 1997, and organised jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Common Security Forum, based at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. The idea that security is to be achieved by cooperation more than by confrontation, and that it is an economic and social as well as a mil…
Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Provinces
The paper is concerned with disputes over sovereignty and global commerce in the 1760s and 1770s. The eighteenth-century revolution in economic science has been identified with agricultural reforms, and with the definition of national economies. The economists of the time, including Turgot, Mirabeau, Dupont de Nemours, Baudeau and Adam Smith, were also intensely interested in the merchant sovereigns of the French, English and Dutch East India com…
Language and empire, c.1800
Emma Rothschild is director of the Centre for History and Economics at Kingâ s College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. Recent publications include Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001), "Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces" (Modern Intellectual History, 2004) and â Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangersâ (The Ne…
Condorcet and Modernity
The Marquis de Condorcet's most famous work, his posthumously published Tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain, was described by its first editors, in 1795, as a “monument” to “the most useful truths.” He has been seen, ever since, as an exemplary figure; an emblem of enlightenment and its illusions. His political ideas, in particular, have been rediscovered and reburied at fairly regular, resonant intervals throughout the course of th…
Adam Smith’s Economics
Adam Smith's writings on economic subjects - to adapt the title that his closest friends gave to his posthumously published Essays on Philosophical Subjects - are diverse, discursive, and interspersed with almost everything else that he wrote. Economic life, for Smith, was intricately interconnected with the rest of life, or with the life of politics, sentiment, and imagination. Economic thought was interconnected with the rest of thought, or wit…
A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic
The administration of the economist and statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, which began in the summer of 1774 and ended in his dismissal in 1776, is one of the most celebrated lost opportunities in the history of France. ‘I perpetually recurred to them as others do to a favourite poet’, John Stuart Mill wrote of the scenes depicted in Condorcet’s Vie de M. Turgot, ‘one of the wisest and noblest of lives, delineated by one of the wisest and nobl…
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and ex…
Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact
The idea of sustainability is an odd composite of imagination and accounting. Environmental history is a permissive historical subdiscipline, and this essay is about the environmental–economic–intellectual history of an environmental idea, sustainability, which is historical in the sense that it is very old, and historical, too, in the sense that it is an idea about history, or about imagining the future in relation to the past. One of the odditi…
Forum: The Idea of Sustainability Introduction
The encounter of environmental history and intellectual history is a union of two insidiously oceanic inquiries. “Oceanic” in the sense of limitlessness, or oneness with the universe. “All history is the history of thought”, and the history of thought is in modern intellectual history a universal investigation, of advertisements for sofas and Ayn Rand and adoption laws in early colonial Bihar. But all history is also the history of space, and of …
Late Atlantic History
The Essential Hirschman
This book brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. The author was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who c…
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