His and his followers’ impact on the Enlightenment was instrumental in bringing about the conviction that “natural inquiry” through experimentation is essential for economic growth and human ...

Reinert, Sophus A., and Steven L. Kaplan. "The Economic Turn in Enlightenment Europe." In The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus ...

on September 8, 2022. The text of the full lecture is available here. In the West, economics is one of our dominant modes of discourse about prosperity. That has not always been the case.

The European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is conventionally taken to be the period in which the disciplines of philosophy, history, economics and anthropology, and other social sciences ...

“I'm very excited about the course that Boston College is setting with the new Center for the Economics of Ideas. In the pursuit of progress, the market can be the vehicle, but the values of science, ...

Reinert, Sophus A. The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.