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Contributions to Political Economy 2004 23(1):9-34; doi:10.1093/conpec/bzh010
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Contributions to Political Economy, Vol. 23, © Cambridge Political Economy Society 2004, all rights reserved

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THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVIL SOCIETY

SHANNON C. STIMSON1 and MURRAY MILGATE2

1 University of California, Berkeley, USA
2 Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK

Abstract

This paper explores the manner in which differing languages and conceptualisations of civil society figured in the early development of economic thought. It begins with a consideration of the understanding of civil society in the mercantilist literature and proceeds to examine the rise and transformation of the idea in the hands of the physiocrats and the classical economists from Adam Smith, through to Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. It concludes with a discussion of the apparent dissolution of the concept in the thinking of the neo-classical writers of the final quarter of the 19th century.


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