Money in Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State

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dc.contributor.authorNance, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-25T21:44:21Z
dc.date.available2023-07-25T21:44:21Z
dc.description.abstractIn 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.sponsorshipFor 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.urihttps://www.academia.edu/95307613/Money_in_Fichtes_The_Closed_Commercial_Stateen_US
dc.format.extent34 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.genrepreprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2aaib-wa3b
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/28854
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Philosophy Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.titleMoney in Fichte’s The Closed Commercial Stateen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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