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Benjamin Constant: Soulful Theorist of Commercial Society

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 28. November 2022

Abstract

Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) is the most important French liberal that most casual liberals have never heard of. Everyone knows something about Montesquieu because checks and balances and the separation of powers are household terms. Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution are both established classics. But Constant is largely terra incognita even for those with a university degree—to their loss.


Corresponding author: Henry C. Clark, Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Silsby, 107 Hinman Box 6108, Hanover, NH 03755, USA, E-mail:

Received: 2022-11-08
Accepted: 2022-11-09
Published Online: 2022-11-28

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