TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schumacher, Reinhard
T1  - Adam Smith and the "rich country-poor country" debate: eighteenth-century views on economic progress and international trade
JF  - The European journal of the history of economic thought
KW  - "rich country-poor country debate"
KW  - Adam Smith
KW  - Josiah Tucker
KW  - David Hume
KW  - economic progress
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2015.1050046
SN  - 0967-2567
SN  - 1469-5936
VL  - 23
SP  - 764
EP  - 793
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paganelli, Maria Pia
A1  - Schumacher, Reinhard
T1  - The vigorous and doux soldier
BT  - David Hume’s military defence of commerce
JF  - History of European ideas
N2  - If war is an inevitable condition of human nature, as David Hume suggests, then what type of societies can best protect us from defeat and conquest? For David Hume, commerce decreases the relative cost of war and promotes technological military advances as well as martial spirit. Commerce therefore makes a country militarily stronger and better equipped to protect itself against attacks than any other kind of society. Hume does not assume commerce would yield a peaceful world nor that commercial societies would be militarily weak, as many contemporary scholars have argued. On the contrary, for him, military might is a beneficial consequence of commerce.
KW  - Trade and conflict
KW  - commercial peace
KW  - David Hume
KW  - doux commerce
KW  - cost of war
KW  - martial spirit
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1509225
SN  - 0191-6599
SN  - 1873-541X
VL  - 44
IS  - 8
SP  - 1141
EP  - 1152
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -