Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy

Introduction; Part I. Biography: 1. Biography and Burke's authority as a political economist; Part II. Market Economies: 2. Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, supply and demand, and middlemen; 3. Agricultural policy, labor, and wealth redistribution; 4. Markets, rationalism, and the Hayek connection; Part III. The British Constitution and Economical Reform: 5. The British Constitution: Burke's program of economical reform and the role of the state; Part IV. Foreign Trade: 6. Account of the European Settlements in America, the British West Indies, and the Free Port Act of 1766; 7. Observations on a Late State of the Nation and the political economy of Anglo-American imperial relations; 8. Anglo-Irish commercial relations, Two Letters on the Trade of Ireland, and the politics of free trade; Part V. India: 9. Britain's East India Company, Indian markets, and monopoly: 10. Speech on Fox's India Bill, six mercantile principles, and the danger of political commerce; Part VI. The French Revolution: 11. Reflections on the Revolution in France: property, the monied interest, and the assignats; 12. The real rights of men, manners, and the limits of transactional exchange; Conclusion.