Understanding Thomas Jefferson

Supplies extensive material making it possible for the reader to understand how Thomas Jefferson's mind spanned the vast distance separating antiquity from writers like William James and Sigmund Freud, analyzing his studies in economics, moral philosophy, history and law.

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Thomas Jefferson and the political economy of Alexander Hamilton - appendix - politics and banking theory; Thomas Jefferson's constitutional system - bad law, good economics; Thomas Jefferson and American manufactures history, politics and economics - appendix - the embargo (December 1807/March 1809) a critical study; the political economy of Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson's moral philosophy; Thomas Jefferson's philosophy the Enlightenment - "ideology"; Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution in France. Appendices: Hohfeld's "Fundamental Legal Conceptions" and liberty; Frank Knight and the ethics of competition.