Jack Jacobs
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
#15 Re-discovering the ”Empirical” Burke: Commerce and Manners with Gregory Collins
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#15 Re-discovering the ”Empirical” Burke: Commerce and Manners with Gregory Collins

It was a joy to speak with Yale's Gregory Collins about his book, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy. The Burke that emerges is one not immediately familiar to us: a principled reformer with powers of imaginative eloquence, yes; yet one with an equally deep appreciation of empirical data and its ability to inform sound political decision making.

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