Gregory Collins, Lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Economics, has a book review in The Review of Politics for Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy.
Edmund Burke is known as a statesman, an orator, and, depending on the perspective, a political theorist. He is not, however, often thought of as a serious political economist. Gregory Collins challenges that thinking in Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy. In his sweeping and detailed historical and economic analysis, Collins convincingly demonstrates that political economy was a major part of Burke’s thought throughout his career. Collins also uncovers key linkages between Burke’s broader political thought and his political economy. As the title itself suggests, Burke believed that markets and virtue must be harmonized to support the political good.