The Forgotten Agrarian
It is not so much a matter of Adam Smith “defending” capitalism as it is of capitalists appropriating Smith, and often against his expressed wishes.
The Land
If farming is looked on simply as a means of making money, the town will necessarily attract the worker to the detriment of the land.
The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures III
Austrian thinkers have been denouncing state intervention only to defend it whenever the rhetorical needs of the moment demand it.
The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures
Why are the past fifty years of scholarship on the enclosures more reliable than the past two centuries of scholarship?