An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain

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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

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"This fine study will repay the attention of those who want to understand early modern political philosophy as well as those seeking to puzzle out the native human ambivalence about risk."---Thomas W. Merrill, Review of Politics

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Emily C. Nacol is assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.