You should by now have read a goodly chunk of The Wealth of Nations and the whole of A Modest Proposal (Swift). I have found a lot of You Tube clips about Adam Smith featuring Smith's most famous recent devotee the US economist Milton Friedman (inventor of Monetarism).
Ludwig Von Mises (Institute) and neo-classical liberal economics (David Hume, John Locke modernised). Very good lecture on the Nation State (mercantalist, Hobbsian, protectionist) in opposition to free markets (legalistic, internationalist, rights-based, individualistic.) The lecture below is an excellent talk dealing with many of the themes dealt with so far (eg Hobbes and the state, Locke and rights) and the nature of the state and its economic basis. The talk is by the significant contemporary US philosopher Donald Livingstone. He is an advocate of 'small state' conservatism and free market economics. I first came across him arguing that Abraham Lincoln far from being a great liberator was in fact a sort of American Napoleon who created a transcontinental empire which is ultimately doomed to disintegration - a very interesting idea. This was posted on the web very recently... so it is 'hot from the press'.
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