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The Principles of Natural and Politic Law
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations.
As professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorf’s works on natural
The Prize
Daniel Yergin
Издател: Simon & Schuster
"The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of oil - and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. "The Prize" is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Издател: Charles Scribner`s Sons
First published in 1905, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most renowned and controversial works of modern social science. It is a brilliant book that studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilisation. The book analyses the connection between the spread of Calvinism
The Public Policy Process
Michael Hill
Издател: Longman
The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. It provides a stimulating and accessible read that clarifies the complexities and diversities of a difficult subject.
In its new edition this book demonstrates how any attempt to influence the policy process needs to be
The Pure Theory of Capital
Friedrich von Hayek
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Pure Theory of Capital, F. A. Hayek’s long-overlooked, little-understood volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek’s manifesto of capital theory is now available again for today’s students and economists to
The Quants
Scott Patterson
Издател: Random House Business Books
How would you feel if you outperformed the market, year after year? Would you become convinced that the good times were here to stay, that nothing could possibly go wrong? And how would you then feel if everything suddenly collapsed around you? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths geniuses let loose in Wall Street's candy store, and
The Reagan Phenomenon and Other Speeches on Foreign Policy
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Издател: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
The diverse speeches and essays in this collection describe, assess, and articulate the foundations of "the Reagan phenomenon."
The diversity of subjects addressed in these speech/essays is indeed great: she describes, assesses, and articulates the foundations of what she terms "the Reagan phenomenon" (as it relates to the liberal tradition, to
The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
In his foreword, Robert D. Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan’s The Reason of Rules: “. . . a book-length attempt to focus the energies of economists and other social analysts on the nature and function of the rules under which ordinary political life and market life function.”
In persuasive
The Rent-Seeking Society
Gordon Tullock
Издател: Liberty Fund
The fifth volume in The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock consists of six parts, each part expounding on a separate component of the field. Part 1, “Rent Seeking: An Overview,” brings together two papers that focus on problems of defining rent-seeking behavior and outline the nature of the ongoing research program in a historical perspective.
The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset
Издател: W.W. Norton & Company
The Revolt of the Masses is the English translation of José Ortega y Gasset's La rebelión de las masas. The original was first published in 1929; the English translation, first published two years later, was authorized by the author.
In this work, Ortega traces the genesis of the "mass-man" and analyzes his constitution en route to describing
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