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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970602103321

Autore

Sally Razeen <1965->

Titolo

Classical liberalism and international economic order : studies in theory and intellectual history / / Razeen Sally

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

9781134710256

1134710259

9781134710263

1134710267

9781280184994

128018499X

9780203271667

0203271661

9780203006993

0203006992

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international political economy ; ; 2

Disciplina

330.12/2/09

Soggetti

Free enterprise - History

Liberalism - History

International economic relations - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The foundations of classical liberalism; What is classical liberalism?; The international political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith: commercial openness, institutional change and unilateral free trade; American excursions: Knight and Viner; The political economy of Frank Knight: classical liberalism from Chicago; Jacob Viner as historian of ideas and international political economist in the classical liberal tradition; German neoliberalism: Eucken, BOhm, ROpke

Ordoliberalism and the social market: classical political economy from GermanyThe international political economy of Wilhelm ROpke: liberalism 'from below'; Constitutionalism and international political



economy: Tumlir; Jan Tumlir: democratic constitutionalism and international economic order; Conclusion; Classical liberalism and international economic order: a synthesis; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order. The author begins with an outline of classical liberalism as applied to domestic economic order. He then surveys the classical liberal tradition from the Scottish Enlightenment to modern thinkers like Knight, Hayekn and Viner. Finally, he brings together the insights of thinkers in this tradition to provide a synthetic overview of classical liberalism and international economic order.The author's deployment of classical liberalism strikes a different note to other 'liberal' interp