M & D tangential

[David Casseres]

Men, advocates argued, were naturally equal and self-governing;
similarly, markets were naturally productive and self-governing.
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Quintessentially American!

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> from a Boston Review essay:
>
> John Lauritz Larson, in a recent presidential address to the Society
> for Historians of the Early American Republic, notes a couple of
> important similarities between the political theories and the economic
> theories of America's revolutionary era. Both sets of ideas demanded
> that the king's government get off people's backs, especially by
> stopping its interference in commerce. And both sets of ideas
> asserted, based 18th-century "scientific" analysis, that state rule
> distorted the God- or Providence- or Nature-given order of things.
> Men, advocates argued, were naturally equal and self-governing;
> similarly, markets were naturally productive and self-governing.
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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