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Classical Liberalism - A Primer by Eamonn Butler

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4.0

Not an expert regarding the political ideology myself but I feel like this short book does provide a good exposure to many of the ideas and viewpoints of classical liberals. Included are an overview of the main social, economic and philosophical points, as well as a summary of important figures in the movement and a reading list (which I’ll definitely be exploring in the future).

However, as merely a summary of ideas, it doesn’t justify and explain ideas using data or comparisons to other schools of thoughts, which I can forgive it for considering it doesn’t intend to be a defence of the principles and it does properly achieve its goal of being an overview of the ideas.
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