Locke, Marshall, and Knight, on uncertainty and risk

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (iii) 1500–1700

“…Two additional publications stood alone thematically but nonetheless serve as a conclusion illustrative of the breadth and variety of early modern social and economic history publications this year. Though histories of early modern economic thought were fewer than in previous years, an article in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought focused on risk and uncertainty in Locke's Two Treatises of Government , and its implications on modern economics is the focus of an article by Nash and Ryback. The authors trace the elimination of uncertainty to Locke's theory of a world unrestricted by the dictates of nature and the harnessing of labour by man to acquire property.…”