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The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Издател: Simon & Brown
The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1850 book by Frederic Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Governmentand in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It
The Marshall Plan Revisited
Imanuel Wexler
Издател: Greenwood Press
Making extensive and judicious use of unpublished American records, Professor Wexler of the University of Connecticut has produced the best book we have had on the Marshall Plan. There are no sensational disclosures or drastic reassessments but a substantial addition to our knowledge about most major aspects of the subject. The treatment of
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
William Rosen
Издател: Jonathan Cape
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea in the World,
The Origins Of Political Order
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
The Party
Richard McGregor
Издател: Allen Lane
China's secret rulers are the elephant in the room. They are the largest political organisation in the world. They control every aspect of Chinese life. And no one discusses them. Until now. Who are they? And how do they operate? Richard McGregor has spent twenty years reporting on this region of the world and he has used all of his experience to
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 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 Royal Treasury Of England
John Stevens
Издател: Gale ECCO, Print Editions
A fascinating history of royal taxation and expenditure from 1066 to the early eighteenth century. It examines such income sources as feudal pledges and penalties imposed on conquered enemies and such expenses as defense, maintenance of the royal household and the suppression of heresy. Highly regarded upon publication, it was a standard work for
The Struggle For Sovereignty
Joyce Lee Malcolm (ed.)
Издател: Liberty Fund
For much of Europe the seventeenth century was, as it has been termed, an "Age of Absolutism" in which single rulers held tremendous power. Yet the English in the same century succeeded in limiting the power of their monarchs. The English Civil War in midcentury and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle
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