Download or read book Foundations of Political Economy written by Neal Wood and published by University of California Presson Demand. This book was released on 1994 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only did these Tudor thinkers condemn widespread poverty and suffering, expressing a social concern that was unprecedented among the privileged of their day, they were also among first Europeans to base their analysis and protest on the available empirical evidence. Without opposing the status quo they were fashioning an economic conception of the state, perhaps their chief claim for being remembered