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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Sully- who wrote (79367)	4/29/2010 5:50:43 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation of 90947

Thomas Hobbes, who also wrote about life being nasty, brutish and short. About concurrently Malthus gave a good analysis of the human condition as it then existed. Been years, but I think Adam Smith subscribed to the labor theory of value. Understandable. At the time effort had to be directed to satisfying subsistence needs for the next day, week or season. Those minds couldn't conceive of the potential benefits of the capitalism then emergent. Here's another olde goodie I'm fond of. There be dayly many things found out, and dayly more may be which our Forefathers never knew to be possible in Nature. Sir Robert Filmer (1653)

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