Alan S. Kahan: "Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism"
This event took place April 27, 2022
Թ the Lecture
Concluding lecture of the 2021-22 "Capitalism and Ethics" lecture series,whichexploresthe complex relationship between capitalism and ethics in American culture and in Western civilization more broadly. Topics include:"'Capitalism' Exhibits the Seven Primary Virtues";“Ethics and Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Philanthropy”;"The Banker Who Brought Down the Old Regime: The Political Economy of Jacques Necker (1732-1804)";"Two French Liberals on Commerce and Citizenship: Benjamin Constant and Alexis de Tocqueville"; and"Vilfredo Pareto, the Moralist."Lectures are archivedon our.
Թ the Speaker
Alan S. Kahanis the visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy for the 2021-22 academic year and host of the "Capitalism and Ethics" series.Kahan, a historian, political theorist and author, is professor of British Civilization at the Université de Paris-Saclay.Kahan is the author of(Oxford, 1992);;Palgrave, 2003);(Transaction, 2010, Routledge 2017); and(Oxford, 2015).He is also the translator ofAlexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution(Chicago, 2 vols. 1998, 2001) and Benjamin Constant’sCommentary on Filangieri's Works(Liberty Fund, 2015).He is currently working onLiberalism – An Incomplete History, which will be published by Princeton Թ Press.Kahan has lived in France since 2007. Previously he taught at Florida International Թ in Miami. He received his PhD in history from The Թ of Chicago in 1987. View Kahan's 2020 CU Boulder lecture,.
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