Chapter 1 The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity

Chapter 2 The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Birth Pangs of Modernity

Chapter 3 French Moralists and the Anthropology of the Modern Era: On the Genesis of the Notions of ‘Interest’ and ‘Commercial Society’

Chapter 5 The Transformation of Philosophy

Chapter 6 The Language of Mercantilism: The English Economic Discussion during the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 7 Natural Law and the Origins of Nationalökonomie : L.H. von Jakob

Chapter 8 Mathematics, Administrative Reform and Social Sciences in France at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 9 From Political Arithmetic to Social Statistics: How Some Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Social Sciences were Implanted

Chapter 10 Certainty and Order, Liberty and Contingency. The Birth of Social Science as Empirical Political Philosophy