Biography and Burke's authority as a political economist -- Thoughts and details on scarcity, supply and demand, and middlemen -- Agricultural policy, labor, and wealth redistribution -- Markets, rationalism, and the Hayek connection -- The British Constitution : Burke's program of economical reform and the role of the state -- Account of the European settlements in America, the British West Indies, and the Free Port Act of 1766 -- Observations on a late state of the nation and the political economy of Anglo-American imperial relations -- Anglo-Irish commercial relations, Two letters on the trade of Ireland, and the politics of free trade -- Britain's East India Company, Indian markets, and monopoly -- Speech on Fox's India bill, six mercantile principles, and the danger of political commerce -- Reflections on the revolution in France : property, the monied interest, and the assignats -- The real rights of men, manners, and the limits of transactional exchange.
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