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Ricardian Politics (Hardcover)
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Ricardian Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Few deny that the work of economists has often embodied or
stimulated significant contributions to political thought. Smith,
Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are good examples. However, the work of
the great classical economist David Ricardo is not usually placed
in such company. Despite Ricardo's affiliations with philosophical
radicals like Bentham and James Mill, the most that previous
scholars have been prepared to allow is that if Ricardo spoke to
political questions at all, he addressed only economic policy. This
book argues forcefully for a revision of that received opinion.
Murray Milgate and Shannon Stimson show that Ricardo articulated a
distinctive political vision, and that he did so in a novel and
sophisticated way by linking arguments for democratic reform with
the conclusions of political economy. Ricardian Politics examines
compelling but neglected evidence of how Ricardo deployed economic
theory to construct a new view of politics. Milgate and Stimson
analyze the case he made for a more inclusive political society and
for a more representative and democratic government, discuss how
his argument was structured by his economics, and explicitly draw
out comparisons with Bentham and James Mill. Ricardo wrote at a
critical moment, which saw the consolidation of capitalist industry
and the emergence of modern democratic political ideology. By
attending to the historical context, this book recovers a more
accurate picture of his thought, while contributing to the current
renewal of research on the relationship between economic and
political thought in early nineteenth-century Britain. Originally
published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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