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Review of Joost Hengstmengel’s Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019, 248 pp.
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Review of Joost Hengstmengel’s Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought
This book is the product of many years of research by Joost Hengstmengel on the role of divine providence in the early modern history of economics, and is based on his doctoral thesis “Divine Oeconomy: The Role of Providence in Early-Modern Economic Thought before Adam Smith” completed at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics in 2015
The doctrine of providence has the following elements: (1) God created the world and sustains it. (2) Divine providence extends to all beings, EJPE.ORG – BOOK REVIEW
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Review of Joost Hengstmengel’s Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought. Hengstmengel writes that he will cover the early modern discussions but the contemporary influence of the doctrine of providence (for example, as explored by Thorstein Veblen or the late Robert Nelson) is outside his scope.
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