Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy

Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, USA. His previous publications include Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson, New York: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, 2014; John Locke and Modern Life, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 and The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• Introduction: Rethinking the Origins of LiberalismThe Political Economy of Thomas HobbesJohn Locke’s Liberal Politics of MoneyInterests and Rights in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable Of the Bees and Trenchard and Gordon’s Cato’s LettersScottish Political Economy: David Hume and Adam SmithThe Political Economy of Thomas PaineJohn Stuart Mill and the Stationary StateLiberalism on Empire and EmancipationConclusion: Towards A Political Economy of Rights and Interest

Lee Ward brings his immense learning and analytic acumen to the task of reconceptualizing classical liberal political economy as importantly different, morally and politically, from so-called neo-liberalism. And as he would save us from neo-liberalism he would also save us from "illiberal democracy".