| Tocqueville''s Political Economy Subjects: Tocqueville Alexis de 1805–1859 -- Views on economics; Economics -- Political aspects; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Tocqueville Alexis de 1805–1859. De la démocratie en Amérique; Tocqueville Alexis de 1805–1859. Ancien régime et la révolution; Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's Political Economy , Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that still has much to teach us today. Richard Swedberg is professor of sociology at Cornell University. His books include Principles of Economic Sociology; Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology ; and Schumpeter: A Biography (all Princeton). |