Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical foundations of political economy -- The moral basis for economic liberty / Robert A. Sirico -- Restoring sound economic thinking : what natural law taught us / John Mueller -- The idea of commerce in enlightenment political thought / Alan Levine -- Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on economic organization and the price mechanism / Samuel Hollander -- Ten (mostly) Austrian insights for these trying times / Bruce Caldwell -- Political economy and American economic experience -- Promoting the general welfare : political economy for a free republic / Richard Wagner -- The economic theory of the American founding / Thomas G. West -- Hamilton and Jefferson: two visions of democratic capitalism / Peter McNamara -- The right kind of regulation: how the founders thought about regulation / Joseph Postell -- American banking from birth to bust, and all points in between / Larry Schweikart.

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