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The economist Adam Smith (1723-1790) contrasts how people from “the middling and inferior stations of life” acquire their reputations and their fortune with those from “the superior stations of life”: In many governments the candidates for the highest stations are above the law; and, if they can …
This illustrated essay explores some images of "liberty" and "industry" from Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) (1751-1772). They have been taken …
The German political economist and protectionist List defends his views in this series of letters published in Virginia.
In this month’s discussion Henry C. Clark, who is a visiting professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College and the editor and translator of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopedic Liberty (Liberty Fund, 2016), explores some of the currents of political thought which swept through the …