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Thomas Jefferson was virtually the protégé of two eminent anti-physiocratic French writers, J.-B. Say and Destutt de Tracy, whose Political Economy extols exchange and makes property, so sacred to Locke, an instrument. (Jefferson supervised its American translation and publication.)
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Burstein, M.L. (1993). The Political Economy of Thomas Jefferson. In: Understanding Thomas Jefferson. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13115-0_5
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