Lecture 'Commercial Utopias of the Enlightenment: Smith and Condorcet on the Market and the State'

Departments of Philosophy and History, Faculty of Humanities, cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr Richard D Sheldon (University of Bristol) 'Commercial Utopias of the Enlightenment: Smith and Condorcet on the Market and the State'.

This lecture reconsiders the positions taken on free trade in times of scarcity by two of its most notable advocates through a historical reconstruction of intellectual debates and political battles over the question of the grain trade in the last decades of the ancien regime. The lecture takes place in Jinonice on May 9 at 4:30 pm.

Dr Richard Sheldon is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History, University of Bristol. He published 14 chapters in New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004, chapters on Adam Smith, Famine, French revolution, Physiocrats, etc., in Encyclopedia of World Poverty, New York 2015, etc. His research interests lies in three main areas: British history 1700-1860, especially the history of radicalism and protest movements; The comparative study of famines and famine relief c.1700 to the present; The history of social and economic thought.