The Sea Change in Political Economy

In the generation before 17 76, there was a sea change in thinking that did cross both the english channel and the atlantic ocean. It affected france, it affected england, and it aft affected the american colony s. Andii, getting a handle on it has occupied historians for a long time. I would say one way of thinking about it is to think of virtually all of it as a kind of outgrowth of montesquieu's spirit of the laws.