Tocqueville's Political Economy

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's Political Economy , Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that still has much to teach us today.