Money in Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State
dc.contributor.author | Nance, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-25T21:44:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-25T21:44:21Z | |
dc.description.abstract | In his 1800 book The Closed Commercial State, J.G. Fichte gives an account of what he regards as the ideally rational form of political economy – “the closed commercial state” – and then describes the kind of political transition that would be required to bring this form of political economy into being. Fichte’s arguments give a leading theoretical and practical role to the politics of money. The purpose of this chapter is to develop an interpretation of Fichte’s monetary doctrine in CCS. I argue that Fichte’s general theory of money is a quantitative, institutionalist theory. I further argue Fichte’s institutionalist theory becomes, in the special case of the closed commercial state, a specifically statist theory of fiat money. Fichte’s statism brings along a raft of theoretical and practical consequences, which taken together underwrite his politics of money. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | For research funding, I thank UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities. For comments and discussion on various ancestors of this chapter, I thank Frank Engster, Aaron James, Simon Derpmann, Nicolas de Warren, and audience members at the “Philosophy and Money” conference in Sioux Falls and at a lunchtime discussion at UMBC’s Dresher Center. Special thanks to Joe Tinguely and Thimo Heisenberg for extremely helpful written feedback. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.academia.edu/95307613/Money_in_Fichtes_The_Closed_Commercial_State | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 34 pages | en_US |
dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
dc.genre | preprints | en_US |
dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2aaib-wa3b | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/28854 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Philosophy Department | |
dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
dc.title | Money in Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
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