Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy

Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests

AvLee Ward

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book re-examines the philosophical roots of classical liberal political economy and its relationship to the problem of empire and the emancipation of women. It proposes an interpretive model based upon the interconnection between distinct theories of natural rights and the harmony of interests. It takes a fresh look at classical liberalism by exploring economic arguments in thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Paine, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon and by highlighting the importance of Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith in the development of interest-based liberalism. It also explores lesser-known economic works by thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill in light of their more well-known political writings. With classical liberal assumptions still prominent in contemporary debates about economic justice, it is vital for every democratic citizen to understand the complex origins and development of the ideas that did so much to shape our world today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:538 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399500593

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Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, USA. His previous publications include Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson, New York: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, 2014; John Locke and Modern Life, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 and The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Lee Ward brings his immense learning and analytic acumen to the task of reconceptualizing classical liberal political economy as importantly different, morally and politically, from so-called neo-liberalism. And as he would save us from neo-liberalism he would also save us from "illiberal democracy".

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Introduction: Rethinking the Origins of LiberalismThe Political Economy of Thomas HobbesJohn Locke’s Liberal Politics of MoneyInterests and Rights in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable Of the Bees and Trenchard and Gordon’s Cato’s LettersScottish Political Economy: David Hume and Adam SmithThe Political Economy of Thomas PaineJohn Stuart Mill and the Stationary StateLiberalism on Empire and EmancipationConclusion: Towards A Political Economy of Rights and Interest