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| Freedom | Destutt de Tracy | Rothbard II 5 Freedom/de TracyVsMontesquieu/Destutt de Tracy/Rothbard: De Tracy first set forth his economic views in his Commentary on Montesquieu(1), in 1807, which remained in manuscript due to its boldly liberal views. In the Commentary, de Tracy attacks hereditary monarchy and one-man rule, and defends reason and the concept of universal natural rights. He begins by refuting Montesquieu's definition of freedom as ‘willing what one ought’ to the far more libertarian definition of liberty as the ability to will and do what one pleased. In the Commentary, de Tracy gives primacy to economics in political life, since the main purpose of society is to satisfy, in the course of exchange, man's material needs and enjoyments. Commerce, de Tracy hails as ‘the source of all human good’, and he also lauds the advance of the division of labour as a source of increasing production, with none of the complaints about ‘alienation’ raised by Adam Smith. He also stressed the fact that ‘in every act of commerce, every exchange of merchandise, both parties benefit or possess something of greater value than what they sell’. Freedom of domestic trade is, therefore, just as important as free trade among nations. >Taxes/de Tracy, >Economics/de Tracy, >Money/de Tracy. 1. Commentaire sur l’esprit des lois de Montesquieu. – Lüttich 1817. Paris: Delaunay, 1819. |
de Tracy I Antoine Destutt de Tracy Commentaire sur l’esprit des lois de Montesquieu German Edition: Commentary on Montesquieu Paris 1819 Rothbard II Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham 1995 Rothbard III Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy and State with Power and Market. Study Edition Auburn, Alabama 1962, 1970, 2009 Rothbard IV Murray N. Rothbard The Essential von Mises Auburn, Alabama 1988 Rothbard V Murray N. Rothbard Power and Market: Government and the Economy Kansas City 1977 |
| Geographical Factors | Montesquieu | Acemoglu I 48 Geographical Hypothesis/Montesquieu/Acemoglu/Robinson: As early as the late eighteenth century, the great French political philosopher Montesquieu noted the geographic concentration of prosperity and poverty, and proposed an explanation for it. He argued that people in tropical climates tended to be lazy and to lack inquisitiveness. As a consequence, they didn’t work hard and were not innovative, and this was the reason why they were poor. Montesquieu also speculated that lazy people tended to be ruled by despots, suggesting that a tropical location could explain not just poverty but also some of the political phenomena associated with economic failure, such as dictatorship. AcemogluVsMontesquieu: >Geographical Factors/Acemoglu, >Geographical factors/Sachs. |
Monte I Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu De l’esprit des lois, Paris 1748 German Edition: Vom Geist der Gesetze Stuttgart 2011 Acemoglu II James A. Acemoglu James A. Robinson Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy Cambridge 2006 Acemoglu I James A. Acemoglu James A. Robinson Why nations fail. The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty New York 2012 |
| Institutions | Voltaire | Höffe I 263 Institutions/VoltaireVsMontesquieu/Voltaire/Höffe: Unlike Montesquieu, whom Rousseau holds in high esteem, Voltaire has hardly any sense for institutions. He laughs at the plan for eternal peace in Europe as an unworldly rhapsody, because he is building on a political illusion, a European League of Nations. Voltaire relies only on growing tolerance and the pressure of public opinion. >Institutions, >Peace, >Utopianism, >Utopia, >Toleration. |
Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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