Manuela Albertone - Benjamin Franklin's Radical Agrarian Project
Lectures in Intellectual History
English - June 18, 2012 18:00 - 58 minutes - 28.6 MB - ★★★★ - 52 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy culture education history lecture philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Benjamin Franklin's interest in physiocracy and the radical implications of French economic ideas extended from Turgot and Condorcet to the British radical milieus. In this lecture, Manuela Albertone highlights Franklin's ability to deliver economic reflection and radical thought, and his passionate belief that only a new attention to the nature of land ownership and its role could combat the forces of corruption so prevalent in commercial societies and shape a modern republic.