3. Interests and Rights in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable Of the Bees and Trenchard and Gordon’s Cato’s Letters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Rethinking the Origins of Liberalism 1
5. 1. The Political Economy of Thomas Hobbes 12
6. 2. John Locke’s Liberal Politics of Money 43
7. 3. Interests and Rights in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable Of the Bees and Trenchard and Gordon’s Cato’s Letters 69
8. 4. Scottish Political Economy: David Hume and Adam Smith 96
9. 5. The Political Economy of Thomas Paine 128
10. 6. John Stuart Mill and the Stationary State 151
11. 7. Liberalism on Empire and Emancipation 180
12. Conclusion: Towards a Political Economy of Rights and Interests 218
13. Bibliography 222
14. Index 242