Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of socialists and critics of free trade in the nineteenth century. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy Keywords Antagonism Commerce Equality France Hierarchy Morality It is easy to assume that the notion of ‘reciprocity’ is universal … example of reciprocity, but so, too, was commercial exchange. Reciprocity excluded, however, exchanges characterised by antagonism and exploitation – ruthlessly taking more than giving. 10 . Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne, Les nuits de … and connotations attaching to ‘reciprocity’ foreclosed the possibility of seeing commerce as a source of inequality or antagonism. 14 . For a seminal discussion in the scholarship on doux commerce, see Albert Hirschman, The Passions and the …
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