In his 1752 essay Of Money, David Hume proposes that a «good policy» for a magistrate would be to keep money «still encreasing». This paper proposes that, for Hume, money can be kept «still encreasing ...
The question is whether Hume’s essay Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth should be regarded as a piece of utopian political theory or not. Hume himself seems to be ambiguous on this point. On the one hand ...