2013-14 Pomona College Catalog

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HIST 100Y PO - Enlightenment and Capitalism

CrsNo HIST100Y PO

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2016.

Instructor(s): G. Kates

During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment writers debated the benefits – both material and moral – of a market-driven economy and the inequality brought by commercial prosperity. We focus on the social, economic, and political thought of Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. (Europe since the Renaissance)