ECONOMIC SENTIMENTSA benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Economic Dispositions | 7 |
2 Adam Smith and Conservative Economics | 52 |
3 Commerce and the State | 72 |
4 Apprenticeship and Insecurity | 87 |
5 The Bloody and Invisible Hand | 116 |
6 Economic and Political Choice | 157 |
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