Commerce and Character
Nine leading scholars explore some of the most important minds behind the new political economy of the American Founding and engage with the foundational work of Ralph Lerner.
In his 1979 article, “Commerce and Character: The Anglo-American as New-Model Man,” Ralph Lerner argued that the American Founders and the political theorists of the commercial republic were charting a new basis for society t...
Nine leading scholars explore some of the most important minds behind the new political economy of the American Founding and engage with the foundational work of Ralph Lerner.
In his 1979 article, “Commerce and Character: The Anglo-American as New-Model Man,” Ralph Lerner argued that the American Founders and the political theorists of the commercial republic were charting a new basis for society t...