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Now discussing the physiocrats. Interesting book.

“Thus, Machiavelli outlined an economic argument…:he believed that a strong state had to oversee a balance between patrician and plebeian classes to guarantee political and economic stability and to avoid oligarchy and tyranny.” (Pages 71-72.)

“Cicero’s writings show that economics are never divorced from the specific historical, cultural, and material conditions that produce them.”