Steuart, Hegel, Chamley: A case upon the nature of ‘influence’

Gilles Campagnolo ()

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Abstract: From July 25 to 31, 1796, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, then working as a private tutor for the aristocracy in Bern, took a mountain hike in the neighbouring Alps. Hegel travelled from Thoune to Altdorg via the Jungfrau and the Uri, a land of glaciers. As Hegel began studying economics for good, the query would reappear: in his reading of Sir James Steuart's Inquiry into the Principles of Political economy, Hegel would make his first step into economic theorizing. In Frankfurt, Hegel was not yet a tenured Gymnasium professor. He was again a private tutor, experiencing hardships of a salaried life – though in wealthy families. Paul Chamley selected excerpts of interest based on his first assessment of the thesis that there surely exists a solid ‘system of political economy' by Hegel. He assumed it rather than he found it as a result of his comparative study.

Date: 2020
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Published in The Economic Thought of Sir James Steuart - First Economist of the Scottish Enlightenment, Routledge, pp.214-240, 2020, 978-1-138-33596-7

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