Not a Partnership in Pepper, Coffee, Callico, or Tobacco: Edmund Burke and the Vicissitudes of Colonial Capitalism

• Main Author: INCE, Onur Ulas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Edmund Burke; capitalism; liberalism; colonialism; British Empire; Scottish Enlightenment; American Politics; Political Economy; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1988; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3245/viewcontent/Not_a_Partnership_in_Pepper.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This essay examines the tensions between liberalism and capitalism through an analysis of Edmund Burke's works on eighteenth-century liberal political economy and, specifically the challenges posed by colonial capitalism. When criticizing the East India Company Burke attempted to fortify "...