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The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times) PDF

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by Charly Coleman| 2021| 391 pages| 14| English

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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 of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that-in contrast to Weber’s famous and “Protestant ethic and “-privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.

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Author:Charly Coleman
Publication Year:2021
ISBN:9781503608436
Pages:391
Language:English
File Size:14
Format:PDF
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