This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith’s theories is considered a central co

The Business of Emotions in Modern History shows how businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to family firms and massive corporations, have relied on, leverag

Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.

A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists

This Element describes the development of an affective economy of violence in the early modern Dutch Republic through the circulation of images. The Element out