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The Levellers – Britain's First Libertarians?
Author(s) -
Elliott Nick
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1988.tb01576.x
Subject(s) - law , economics , law and economics , political science
The common understanding of the Levellers is that they were embryo socialists. Nick Elliott argues that they were seventeenth century libertarians.