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Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849
The thesis of Patrick Newman’s Cronyism (2021) is that American political history from 1607 to 1849 was essentially a tug of war between mercantilists who essentially stood for the theory of government that yours truly has long opposed—that the main purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not—and libertarians. The …