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Author MINGARDI, ALBERTO

Title CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKING CLASS the economic thought of thomas hodgskin
Published ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Ser
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A life in the storm -- The early life of Thomas Hodgskin -- Utilitarian (and useful) friendships -- A journalistic career -- An Essay on Naval Discipline -- 2. Thomas Hodgskin's peculiar blend of "socialism" -- Hodgskin: a Ricardian socialist? -- Capital and privilege -- The issue of machinery -- A theorist of human capital? -- 3. Political economy and free trade -- A defender of political economy -- Labor, knowledge and a principle of population
A long-time opposition to the Corn Laws -- Hodgskin, Cobden, and the League -- Hodgskin's free trade manifesto -- 4. Free trade in banking -- Some thoughts on the business cycle -- Free banking -- 5. Between liberalism and anarchism -- Private property, good and bad: Hodgskin as a Lockean -- Against "scientific" government -- Public opinion and the middle classes -- Conclusion -- Herbert Spencer and Thomas Hodgskin -- The anti-utilitarianism of Spencer and Hodgskin -- A distinct tradition of classical liberalism? -- Index
Subject Hodgskin, Thomas, 1787-1869 -- Knowledge -- Economics
SUBJECT Hodgskin, Thomas, 1787-1869 fast
Subject Economics -- History -- 19th century.
Liberalism -- History -- 19th century
Economics
Liberalism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0429513992
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