The Two Narratives of Political Economy

This publication uniquely reintegrates and makes comprehensible all public policy debate from the fields of philosophy, economics, and political science since the Enlightenment. It includes original material from scholars and thinkers in the 17 th , 18 th , and 19 th centuries together with extensive introductions by the authors to explain the context. This book presents an in-depth exploration of the origins of the current political debate in the U.S. between the Republican and Democrat positions on issues to do with social and economic policy.

Nicholas Capaldi is Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans. His highly-praised biography of John Stuart Mill was featured on C-Span's BookNotes. Gordon Lloyd is a Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. The co-author of three books on the American founding and sole author of The Two Faces of Liberalism, which examines the political economy of the New Deal. He is the creator of three highly regarded websites on the creation and adoption of the Constitution.