Gregory Collins
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Gregory Collins is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and the department of political science at Yale University. This article is adapted from his book on Edmund Burke’s economic thought, “Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy,” recently published by Cambridge University Press.
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