George Will's Statecraft as Soulcraft: Selected Passages

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Daniel B. Klein

George Mason University - Department of Economics; George Mason University - Mercatus Center

Date Written: March 2, 2017

Abstract

I select 46 passages from George Will’s Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (1983), because they deserve a fresh hearing.

Keywords: Edmund Burke, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Lon Fuller, Milton Friedman, liberty, virtue

JEL Classification: A12, A13

Suggested Citation

Klein, Daniel B., George Will's Statecraft as Soulcraft: Selected Passages (March 2, 2017). Society, Forthcoming, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2926718 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2926718

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