Laissez-faire

strongly suggest to read this Keynes' article to anyone that is interesting in understand the state of mind at the beginning of the ninteen century, related to individualism and laissez-faire.Keynes, links Hume, Paley, Burke, Rousseau, Godwin, Malthus, Cobbett, Huskisson, Bentham, Coleridge, Darwin (yes the father of evolutionism) and the Bishop of Oxford to explain that state of affair.Beautiful, really beautiful."I do not know which makes a man more conservative -to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past"In a clear sense, economists furnished the scientific bases of individualism and laissez-faire.This article is important to understand Keynes. As any clever man, Keynes accept the dangerous of dealing with gray area, without jumping to blacks and white.