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Dan Klein: Conservative Liberalism: Hume, Smith, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives
„On regular issues of policy reform—presupposing a stable integrated polity— Hume, Smith, and Burke were liberal in the original political meaning of ‚liberal.‘ Thus, on policy reform, although they accorded the status quo a certain presumption (as any reasonable person must), the more distinctive feature is that they maintained (even propounded, Weiterlesen…