Some related readings: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) - http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smMSCover.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Smit

Some related readings: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) - http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smMSCover.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smMSCover.html Adam Smith's Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms (1763) - http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2621 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2621 (warning: long page) Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) - http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1365 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1365 (warning: long page) Francis Hutcheson's An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726) - http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hutcheson-an-inquiry-into-the-original-of-our-ideas-of-beauty-and-virtue-1726-2004 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hutcheson-an-inquiry-into-... (warning: long page)