... labelled doux commerce. ³ The doux commerce thesis has three dimensions—two domestic and one international. Commerce has civilising effects on the citizens of a nation, facilitating a peaceful coexistence among them and guaranteeing the rule of law. Commerce is a restraint...

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... became sociability. The convergence of sermo and conversatio made possible the establishment of a causal connection between the two concepts. This connection appeared via doux commerce, the application of sociability to the realm of economics...

... of doux commerce to show how modernity would replace the old warrior ethic of glory in order to produce new habits based on individualism and an ethic of and “self-interest rightly understood.” This ethic was in turn the source of a distinctively modern pathology that leads people to flee from...

...Hume argued, expanding on Montesquieu’s principle of doux commerce, that trade and commerce promote peace and civility. Focusing first and foremost on the burgeoning middle class, Hume argued that the habits and customs of commercial life held the key to a more polite society and enlightened world...

..., scholarship could be liberated from mercantilist limits and left to seek its own reward on the basis of merit anywhere on earth. Theorists called it doux commerce: a belief that exchange itself “civilized” all who participated and rendered individuals as well as nations more rational, tolerant, and peaceful...

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... for their accession. It was not the civilizing force of doux commerce that changed them but the hard disciplines assumed and the serious monitoring of implementation by the EU bodies. The notorious acquis communautaire, a voluminous body of written and unwritten law,41 transformed them into market economies...