Mingardi on the Legacy of Thomas Hodgskin
The legacy of English journalist and “self‐taught economist” [1]Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) naturally lends itself to scholarly debate: a principled defender of labor and an opponent of capitalism, [2] he was at the same time a radical champion of free‐market competition and the rights of the individual, consistently opposing state power and intervention in all areas of social and economic life. In Alberto Mingardi’s latest book, Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, the political historian undertakes to shed new l...
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