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The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Bernard Mandeville
Издател: Liberty Fund
It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy.
The Fable begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices"
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Издател: Liberty Fund
Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter in French experience by one of the most remarkable English historians of the nineteenth century. In contrast to Burke a century before, Acton leaves condemnation of the French Revolution to others. He
Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate
Steven G. Calabresi (ed.)
Издател: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country.
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2010 Pig Book Summary
Citizens Against Government Waste
Издател: Citizens Against Government Waste
The "Pig Book," an annual report detailing the excesses of pork spending, has served up its usual heavy-duty mockery of congressional excesses. But this year the meat spit is smaller.
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The Ethics of Redistribution
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Издател: Liberty Fund
In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional efforts sap incentives and are economically destructive. Rather, he stresses the commonly disregarded ethical arguments showing that redistribution is ethically indefensible for, and practically unworkable
The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Bernard Mandeville
Издател: Liberty Fund
It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy.
The Fable begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices"
Предназначението на човека
Николай Бердяев
Издател: Издателство "Захараий Стоянов"
Четвъртият том от събраните съчинения на Николай Бердяев включва: Предназначението на човека (1931) и Мирогледът на Достоевски (1923).
The State
Anthony de Jasay
Издател: Liberty Fund
The State is an idiosyncratic and brilliant analysis of modern political arrangements that views the state as acting in its own interest contrary to the interests of individuals and even of an entire society. As Nobel laureate James Buchanan has observed, Jasay subjects the state to a "solid, foundational analysis, grounded in an understanding of
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