Edmund Burke was not a fan of austerity. http://coreyrobin.tumblr.com/post/45085628179/edmund-burke-on-austerity …
@CoreyRobin It's been years since I read it but I hazily remember some odd stuff about gold & paper currency that suggested... 1/2
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@HeerJeet That's true. Comparison between Necker's finances and the Revolution's. About four or five paragraphs. I'd have to re-read it. -
@CoreyRobin Yep. Maybe I read too much into those passages but it seems to me Burke is very anxious about subversive economics of revolution - Show replies
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