Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Jefferson and Political economy
How Thomas Jefferson's reading engaged the concept of Political economy.
This page traces how Thomas Jefferson's reading connects to the shared concept Political economy.
Evidence ledger
- Absorbed (confidence 0.85): Sowerby's catalogue documents that Jefferson's library included Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. (from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)
- Absorbed (confidence 0.75): Recall-batch n-gram match: shared phrase "wealth of nations" between output item 191 and input-side text linked to Two Treatises of Government.
- Absorbed (confidence 0.70): Recall-batch n-gram match: shared phrase "smith's wealth of" between output item 193 and input-side text linked to Two Treatises of Government.
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