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Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367193620
ISBN13: 9780367193621
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2020
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial Revolution, with a genuine interest in the well-being of the working classes. This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism, where he belongs--as a disciple of Adam Smith, but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was.

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