Glory M. Liu is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Political Theory Project at Brown University in Rhode Island, and has research interests in the history of political thought, American politics and political economy. She is working on the book ‘Inventing the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith in American Thought and Politics, 1776-Present’, under contract with Princeton University Press.

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