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"Considers the differing views of equality of opportunity in the United States--from the Founders' conception to that of political progressives--and the role of the government in advancing it"--

1. John Locke and the Three Pillars of Liberty -- 2. Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Three Pillars of Equality -- 3. Adam Smith and the system of natural liberty -- 4. The arrival of the liberty narrative in America -- 5. The French revolution and the socialist alternative -- 6. The evolution of the liberty narrative in nineteenth century continental thought: Tocqueville, Kant and Hegel -- 7. Mill's place in the liberty narrative -- 8. The scientific socialism of Marx and Engels -- 9. Charles Beard, the Progressives, and Roosevelt's New Deal -- 10. Keynes and Hayek: the road to serfdom -- 11. Locke and Keynes arrive in the twentieth century US: Galbraith, Harrington, Friedman, and Rawls -- 12. Hayek and Oakeshott: making a new case for liberty -- 13. Thomas Piketty: the apotheosis of Rousseau and the French Revolution.

"Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's US domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern US conservatism and how three pillars--liberty, limited government, and constitutionalism--formed his case against the New Deal and, in turn, became the underlying philosophy of conservatism today. Illustrating how the debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were conducted much like the campaign rhetoric of liberals and conservatives in 2012, Lloyd and Davenport assert that conservatives must, to be a viable part of the national conversation, "go back to come back"--Because our history contains signposts for the way forward"--Publisher website

Captures the 17th-19th century origins and developments ofpolitical economy by editing original texts and illuminatingtheir relevance for today's political debate Political economy from the 17th century to the present can be captured in two narratives originating with Locke and Rousseau. Those original narratives were expanded in significant ways in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the editors argue that they still hold sway today. Edited original writings included in the anthology are from: Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Owen, the Federalist Papers, the French

Captures the 17th-19th century origins and developments ofpolitical economy by editing original texts and illuminatingtheir relevance for today's political debate Political economy from the 17th century to the present can be captured in two narratives originating with Locke and Rousseau. Those original narratives were expanded in significant ways in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the editors argue that they still hold sway today. Edited original writings included in the anthology are from: Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Owen, the Federalist Papers, the French.