Liberalismo

"The term was exported to Europe and the United States as well. Some scholars have argued that the modern usage of “liberal” originated on the European continent before spreading to Britain. But using Google’s scans of books in French, Spanish, Italian, and German, we can see that usage in these countries trails Britain. I wouldn’t go so far as Arthur Herman does in the title of his splendid 2001 book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, but it was Scots who originated t...

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The Origin of 'Liberalism'

When Adam Smith and a group of fellow Scots first used the word in a political sense, it meant something very different than it does today.

THEATLANTIC.COM|POR DANIEL B. KLEIN