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Cosmopolitical economy: exchangeable value and national development in Adam Smith and Maria Edgeworth.

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20030322
Author:Easton, Fraser

All constitutions of government ... are valued only in proportion as they tend to promote the happiness of those who live under them.

--The Theory of Moral Sentiments

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

--The Wealth of Nations

IS CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, AS DEVELOPED AND EXPOUNDED BY Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, a mode of imperialism? Recent work by Katie Trumpener and others points us in just such a direction. Trumpener, for example, argues, with respect to the English ...

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