25. From A Treatise on Political Economy | Individualism: A Reader
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Date: 01/07/2015

A Treatise on Political Economy, trans. Thomas Jefferson (Georgetown, DC: W. A. Rind & Co., 1817)

Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) was a French philosopher who coined the term "ideology"—a discipline devoted to tracing our ideas to their origins in sense experience. Tracy's book, A Treatise on Political Economy, was translated into English with the assistance of Thomas Jefferson, after which it became a popular textbook on free-market economics in American universities.

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