Michael R. Strain is director of Economic Policy Studies and resident scholar at AEI.Stan A. Veuger is resident scholar at AEI and the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives.

• ContentsPreface vMichael R. Strain and Stan A. VeugerAristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life 1Harvey C. MansfieldHobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy 9Peter B. JosephsonRousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing 30John T. ScottAdam Smith and Human Flourishing 46Ryan Patrick HanleyEconomic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Kant onSociety, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice 58Susan Meld ShellEdmund Burke’s Economics of Flourishing 84Yuval LevinCapitalism as a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville onEconomic Liberty and Human Flourishing 96Steven BilakovicsJohn Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and HumanFlourishing 108Richard BoydEconomic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing:Marx and Especially His Followers 129Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyAbout the Authors 150

Michael R. Strain is director of Economic Policy Studies and resident scholar at AEI.Stan A. Veuger is resident scholar at AEI and the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives.

• ContentsPreface vMichael R. Strain and Stan A. VeugerAristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life 1Harvey C. MansfieldHobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy 9Peter B. JosephsonRousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing 30John T. ScottAdam Smith and Human Flourishing 46Ryan Patrick HanleyEconomic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Kant onSociety, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice 58Susan Meld ShellEdmund Burke’s Economics of Flourishing 84Yuval LevinCapitalism as a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville onEconomic Liberty and Human Flourishing 96Steven BilakovicsJohn Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and HumanFlourishing 108Richard BoydEconomic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing:Marx and Especially His Followers 129Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyAbout the Authors 150