Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)
Free Thoughts
The Last Great Political Economist Who Makes References to Cicero
In the modern field of economics, much of which is taking place at Cambridge, I'm shocked that those economists have so disconnected themselves from classical moral studies. Locke has a pretty heavy vision of the state and just people need to realize that. And he started working for absolutist regimes. He writes the constitutions of Maryland, which is an absolute monarchist constitution with noblemen and slaves written in there.
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