Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Abstract:
In the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth, there occurred a conceptual reversal regarding the relationship between land and labour as agents of production of wealth. Authors of the seventeenth century attributed to labour – as “form” and “father” – a fundamental role in produc- ing wealth, and they considered land as “matter” and “mother”, while Physiocrats attributed reproductive capacity only to land, and viewed labour as either mere support of nature or “sterile” transformative activity. These conceptions about the formation of wealth emerged not only from theoret- ical analyses but also from metaphors which had an important role in provid- ing preliminary conceptual frameworks.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
Aristotle; preclassical economic thought; matter; form
Elenco autori:
Stefano Fiori
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