A prominent Scottish laissez-faire advocate published in 1929
Evidence
Where James Nisbet taught, having been appointed in 1935 and retiring as professor in 1970. Nisbet was a prominent Scottish advocate of laissez-faire, having published A Case for Laissez-Faire (London: P. S. King, 1929). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 492
Categorization
- QUESTION: Nisbet’s A Case for Laissez-Faire (1929) — is this an early pre-neoliberal marker worth tracing as part of the intellectual network’s roots?