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John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

Not everything in Athens was by a vote, they also cast lots for city jobs. The law and customs are given in reading from classic texts and poems. The idea of a citizen having "rights" in the running of the city-state goes back to Athens. Before in ancient that ordinary people pretty much had the right to pay taxes and serve in the military,

Gordon Tullock

Издател: Liberty Fund

The Organization of Inquiry, the third volume in Liberty Fund’s The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, was originally published by Duke University Press in 1966. This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at

John Millar

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

"The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks" is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Building on David Hume, Adam Smith, and their respective natural histories of man, John Millar developed a progressive account of the nature of authority in society by analyzing changes in

Eric D. Beinhocker

Издател: Random House Business Books

Economics is changing radically. This book surveys the cutting-edge ideas of the leading economists, physicists, biologists and cognitive scientists who are fundamentally reshaping economics, and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers argue that the economy is a 'complex adaptive system'. What is wealth? How is it

Francis Fukuyama

Издател: Profile Books Ltd

This is Francis Fukuyama's most important book since the pathbreaking End of History. Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its