Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nacol, Emily

Titel

An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 17th and 18th century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterised by probabilistic calculation, prediction and control.