Edmund Burke

What would Edmund Burke's ideal government be?

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In his 1795 work Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Burke reveals that he has indeed fallen prey to the beauty and sublimity of Smith’s system. Burke here calls for the implementation free market policies with dogmatic zeal, regardless of the consequences, equating the laws of the market with the commands of God. The paper concludes that the widespread embrace of Smith’s system in this enthusiastic manner remains a real danger today.