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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Complete text of books and treatises discussed in the lecture:
- Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
- David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s What Is Property?
- Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
- David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s What Is Property?
- “The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of Classical Liberalism” by Ralph Raico
- Robert Owen’s failed factory at New Lanark is now a World Heritage site. Go figure.
- Readers interested in the war for Greek independence may wish to read David Brewer’s book on the subject
Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism – Quiz
- Identify three political positions an early 19th-century liberal would be likely to hold.
- Identify at least three political events of the 1820s and 1830s that occurred in part because of liberal ideas.
- Identify at least two early liberal authors.
- According to socialists, the fundamental problem in society was the _______________.
- Identify three early socialists and their social prescriptions.
- Identify at least four traits traditionally used to classify one’s nationality.
- Identify two regions of Europe where nationalism grew especially influential in the early and mid-19th century.
- freedom of speech; freedom of press; freedom of religion;laissez-faire economy
- Great Reform Bill of 1832; July Revolution; Greek War of Independence; Belgian secession
- Adam Smith, David Ricardo; some others not mentioned specifically in the lecture include Jeremy Bentham, Jean-Baptiste Say, and James Mill
- inequality of wealth
- Charles Fourier—agricultural communes; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon—abolition of private property; Robert Owen—industrialists pay workers above-market wages
- language; religion; culture; heritage; race/ethnicity
- Italy; Germany