Edmund Burke is widely acknowledged as one of the most astute students of the social psychology of revolutions. As JGA Pocock has shown, the concept of enthusiasm played a crucial role in Burke's analysis of the French Revolution, supplying him with a vocabulary with which to capture how the...

The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...