LEADER 02750cam 2200433 i 4500001 ocn951724649 003 OCoLC 005 20160824140012.7 008 160613s2016 nju b 001 0 eng d 020 9780691165103 |qhardcover 020 0691165106 |qhardcover 035 (Sirsi) 99971543977 035 99971543977 035 (OCoLC)951724649 040 ERASA |beng |erda |cERASA |dBDX |dQGJ |dNhCcYBP |dUtOrBLW 043 e-uk--- 050 4 HM1101 |b.N33 2016 082 04 302.12 |223 100 1 Nacol, Emily C., |eauthor. |=^A1325726 245 13 An age of risk : |bpolitics and economy in early modern Britain / |cEmily C. Nacol. 264 1 Princeton, New Jersey : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2016] 300 xii, 169 pages ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 In "An Age of Risk", Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control. In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making. They developed sophisticated theories of trust and credit as crucial background conditions for prudent risk-taking, and offered complex depictions of the relationships and behaviors that would make risk-taking more palatable. 650 0 Risk |xSociological aspects. |=^A317867 651 0 Great Britain |xHistory |yStuarts, 1603-1714. |=^A38560 651 0 Great Britain |xHistory |y18th century. |=^A42597 600 10 Hobbes, Thomas, |d1588-1679 |xKnowledge |xRisk. |=^A17284 600 10 Locke, John, |d1632-1704 |xKnowledge |xRisk. |=^A16664 600 10 Hume, David, |d1711-1776 |xKnowledge |xRisk. |=^A15494 600 10 Smith, Adam, |d1723-1790 |xKnowledge |xRisk. |=^A28061 949 |i30372016634401 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s39.95 |tJoyner48 |uJSOC |zUSD 596 1 998 4678740