{"product_id":"classical-liberalism-and-the-industrial-working-class","title":"Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin’s works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of \u003cem\u003elaissez-faire\u003c\/em\u003e economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial Revolution, with a genuine interest in the well-being of the working classes. This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism, where he belongs—as a disciple of Adam Smith, but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClassical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the history of economic thought, economic history and the history of political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542326763758,"sku":"9780367532154","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/classical-liberalism-and-the-industrial-working-class","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}