Course: UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification 2021/22 Winter, Section: [6] January 28 - Political economy as the "master-science of civil life"

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[6] January 28 - Political economy as the "master-science of civil life"
Assigned reading:
Friedrich List, "The theory of productive forces and the theory of values," National System of Political Economy (1856 [1841]), 208-228. [original German text] [ Hungarian, Russian]
Further resources:
M. Norton Wise and Crosbie Smith, "Work and waste: Political economy and natural philosophy in nineteenth century Britain," History of Science 27 (1989) (part 1 and part 2) and 28 (1990) (part 3).
Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (1989).