Търсене
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Издател: Plume
In her first notes for The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand describes its purpose as “a defense of egoism in its real meaning . . . a new definition of egoism and its living example.” She later states its theme as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul; the psychological motivations and the basic premises that produce
The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
Издател: Signet
Selfishness — a virtue? Ayn Rand chose this book’s provocative title because she was on a mission to overcome centuries of demonization. “In popular usage,” Rand writes, “the word ‘selfishness’ is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends . . . and
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
Издател: Signet
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal is a collection of essays, mostly by Ayn Rand, with additional essays by her associates Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. The book focuses on the moral nature of laissez-faire capitalism and private property. The book has a very specific definition of capitalism, a system it regards as broader than
Public Management in the Central and Eastern European Transition: Concepts and Cases
Glen Wright , Juraj Nemec
Издател: NICPAcee (The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe)
This book focuses upon managerial responsibilities and roles as opposed to education in law, politics or other fields. The aim of this textbook therefore is action-oriented, applied and practical, not theoretical nor philosophical. It discusses in straight-forward prose, step by step, how to make things happen in the public sector effectively,
A Treatise on Political Economy
Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
Издател: Liberty Fund Inc.
"A Treatise on Political Economy" by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known as the
Паричният съвет: “The only game in town”
Калин Христов
Издател: Българска народна банка
"Тази статия, основавайки се на няколко допускания, прави опит да отговори на въпроса, дали запазването на независимата парична политика бе дало по-голяма гъвкавост на икономическата
The Pure Theory of Capital
Friedrich von Hayek
Издател: Liberty Fund Inc.
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 discover.
Leisure the Basis of Culture
Josef Pieper
Издател: Liberty Fund Inc.
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.
Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel
Издател: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist.
Once described by Mao Zedong as a
The Law, The State, and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850
Frédéric Bastiat
Издател: Liberty Fund Inc.
Vol. 2 of a 6 vol. collection of the works of the 19th century French political economist Frédéric Bastiat. This volume contains 19 essays on political theory, including “The State,” “The Law,” and “Property and Plunder.” A detailed glossary contains information about the people, institutions, and ideological issues of his
Книги: 1051 - 1060 от общо 1582