Jefferson's moral agrarianism: Poetic fiction or normative vision?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 497-506

  Holowchak, M Andrew ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American philosophy; Economics; Ethical agrarianism; Manufacturing; Meliorism; Moral agrarianism; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555207178     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-010-9297-3     Document Type: Article

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