HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Economic Liberalism, Invisible Hand, Free Trade
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A middle-class ideology characteristics of liberalism legacy of the french revolution liberal forefathers and key thinkers two ideologies developed during the congress of vienna. Liberalism and nationalism liberalism couldn"t exist without the french revolution and the class ideologies of the industrial revolution. The transformation of the french revolution, the stages that lead to the industrial revolution. Classical liberalism is the liberalism of this time. Contemporary liberalism is modern day liberalism for western society. You can"t be thrown in jail for no reason, have a choice for how to be governed, you could trade any way you wanted, you could pay your workers any way you wanted. No government intervention was the way to develop the best society with the most freedom and justice. Free trade, no minimum wage, no regulation of the economic sphere: contemporary: the need for the intervention in the economy; some regulation and rules in the service in individual liberty.
