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You can read the entire review, but here is the main conclusion - "While in favor of the modern commercial world, believing that it had and would continue to raise standards of living, promote peaceful relations, and foster moral refinement, Hume was not an unqualified enthusiast. He recognized many of the underlying injustices of capitalism, its tendencies to promote avarice and inequality, as well as its potential for political instability and absolutism."

A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism. By Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xvi+316. $45.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper); $44.99 (e-book). | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 95, No 4

A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism. By Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xvi+316. $45.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper); $44.99 (e-book). | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 95, No 4

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