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The Scottish Enlightenment has come to occupy such an exalted place in the history of economic thought that its role is all too frequently seen as a form of discontinuity in intellectual history. As Professor Thomson’s article lays inadequate emphasis on the connections of the Scottish Enlightenment, both with contemporaries and with the past, I will focus my thoughts on this issue.1 In particular, the heterogeneity of the Scots needs more emphasis, as does their dependence on the world-view provided by Christianity.
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Rashid, S. (1987). The Scottish Enlightenment: Evaluation of Origins. In: Todd Lowry, S. (eds) Pre-Classical Economic Thought. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3255-5_15
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