Table of Contents

Contents

Preface v
Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger
Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life 1
Harvey C. Mansfield
Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy 9
Peter B. Josephson
Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing 30
John T. Scott
Adam Smith and Human Flourishing 46
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Kant on
Society, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice 58
Susan Meld Shell
Edmund Burke’s Economics of Flourishing 84
Yuval Levin
Capitalism as a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville on
Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing 96
Steven Bilakovics
John Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and Human
Flourishing 108
Richard Boyd
Economic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing:
Marx and Especially His Followers 129
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
About the Authors 150

About the Author

Michael R. Strain is director of Economic Policy Studies and resident scholar at AEI.

Stan A. Veuger is resident scholar at AEI and the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives.