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.... Dickinson, H. T. 1970 . Bolingbroke . London: Constable & Company. Eagly, Robert V. 1969 . Monetary Policy and Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sweden. Journal of Economic History 29.4 : 739 -57. Ekelund, Robert B., and Robert D. Tollison. 1981 . Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society...

... physics to argue that a structure composed of independently moving parts could nonetheless exist as a harmonious whole. When Cartesian physics was displaced by Newtonian physics in the eighteenth century, a variety of writers such as Paxton, Hutcheson, and Bolingbroke considered self-interest...

... mysteries, such as those associated with Cantillon’s “death” in 1734, the 1755 publication of his book, his association with Scottish financier John Law, Prime Minister Bolingbroke, and Lord Chandos; his inordi- nate number of law suits, the intricacies of the Cantillon family tree and of his...

...- tury Florence by way of James Harrington, Andrew Fletcher, and Henry Bolingbroke. l2 This alternative language and its associated paradigm ex- toll citizenship as an active virtue practiced as a “moral disposition of the self toward the maintenance of the public . . . good, identifiable...

... Taylor of Caroline, who ex- posed the obsolete character of Adams’ Defense, also wrote anti- Hamiltonian polemic in which the spirit of Bolingbroke stalked on every page. 146 It is this patrimony that one Southern historian has claimed in a recently published sequel to I’ll...

..., the laws of nature and the laws of morality are the same thing. For Lord Bolingbroke (whose important work, A Patriot King, was published in 1738), any governmental action in conformity Oswald / Smithian Political Economy 469 This latter aspect of the Enlightenment’s...

... views of society and perhaps reflects his Tory sympathies and intellectual affiliation with Bolingbroke. For a discussion of the political discourse about the opposition between landed and moneyed interests in Britain in the early eighteenth century, see Carruthers 1999, 88–89...