Hume Smith Burke Geijer Menger d'Argenson et EJW cetera

This volume contains a selection of 15 items published in Econ Journal Watch (EJW). EJW publishes material on characters it finds admirable including David Hume Adam Smith Edmund Burke Erik Gustaf Geijer and Carl Menger. This volume of 358 pages collects 15 gems by or about such figures and related items. Most notable is Hume's original account of his episode with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Several of the items had been neglected such as a glorious essay by the great French liberal Marquis d'Argenson who was born 17 years before Hume. Another is a remarkable squib from Edinburgh in 1758 against monopoly privileges for barbers. The material is online at econjwatch.org but this volume makes tangible a mansion of sympathetic company.Contributors: Daniel B. Klein Jason Briggeman René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy Marquis d'Argenson Anonymous (a Bellonian) Benoît Malbranque Tobias Smollett Hew Dalrymple (pseud?) David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jacob R. Hall F. E. Guerra-Pujol Scott Drylie Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours Frederic Sautet Ian Simpson Ross Edmund Burke Erik Gustaf Geijer Peter C. Hogg Carl Menger Erwin Dekker and Stefan Kolev.