This book examines the concept of public interest against the
background of English politics from the Civil War to the coming of
the Hanoverians. These years witnessed both the rise of the modern
notion of the public interest as a part of ordinary political
language and the growth of a social philosophy of individualism.
The new ideas challenged the status quo, based on order, reason of
state and national power, in the name of legitimate self-interest
and respect for the rights of the private person. In presenting a
complex set of ideas in their historical context, the author
examines both abstract philosophies and the issues of the day as
recorded in press, pulpit and law courts. A chapter devoted to
economic thought includes a re-assessment of the social assumptions
of mercantilism.
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