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"These are the first five volumes of the twenty-volume reference series, ""Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers"", covering the work of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Joseph A. Schumpeter and the Modern Papacy. ""Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers"" provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. Even the selection of thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including not only theorists but also thinkers in literary forms and those who are also practitioners. This volume includes an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition of the Hume's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources and an index."

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A worthwhile project and one that should generate considerable interest Professor Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina, USA and General Editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

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Christopher Berry is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Glasgow, UK, and the author of five books: Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 1997); The Idea of Luxury (Cambridge, 1994); The Idea of Democratic Community (Wheatsheaf, 1989); Human Nature (Macmillan, 1986); and Hume, Hegel and Human Nature (Martinus Nijhoff, 1982). Dr Meadowcroft is Lecturer in Public Policy at King's College London and the author of The Ethics of the Market (Palgrave, 2005) and co-author of Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007).

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