James Harrington's 'Machiavellian' anti-Machiavellism

► Harrington's image as the true hero of Machiavellian values is challenged. ► His 'Agrarian' is indebted to Cunaeus's interpretation of the Jewish Jubilee as fundamental property laws. ► Harrington turned them into a general law of his original, modern political science. ► This science is based on a strict relationship between politics and economics. ► It therefore entails a new, post-Machiavellian theory of liberty and property.