Is Wealth Virtuous? Is Consumption Ethical? Dispatches from Seventeenth-Century Japan
Date
Tue November 6th 2012, 4:15 - 5:30pm
Event Sponsor
History Department, Center for East Asian Studies
Location
Philippines Conference Room,
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor
Speaker:
Beth Berry Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Between roughly 1600 and 1700 Japan went through a social revolution resulting from swift urbanization and the penetration of a market economy. This lecture explores the economic culture of the period by focusing on the meanings, value, and purposes of "profit."
Contact Email
romanoff [at] stanford.edu
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