Dear SHOE list,
I recently received this question from a colleague. If anyone has any 
thoughts, you may respond to me either on or off list, and I will 
forward to the person who asked.
Bruce

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I have a quick question for you: do you know of recent economists, 
economic journalists, or historians of economics who link the figure of 
William Godwin to advocacy of markets as mechanisms that can overcome 
apparent limits to growth? David Warsh does this, for example, in his 
recent _Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations_, and Godwin also plays an 
important (though different) role in Thomas Sowell's _A Conflict of 
Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles_.  I'm wondering if 
these are isolated examples, or if Godwin has in fact become an 
important point of reference in the last decade or so, at least with 
circles of people interested in economics?

-- 
Bruce Caldwell
Research Professor of Economics
Director, Center for the History of Political Economy

"To discover a reference has often taken hours of labour, to fail to discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing  Smith's Wealth of Nations

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