Looks at the political theories of 12 prominent people from history, including Pericles, Muhammad Iqbal, Jesus Christ, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson. From the author of "Tears Of The Rajas"
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious v…
A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomasell…
"Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft's thought is possible only through a more comprehensive a…
Presents an exposition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and offers an appreciation of Smith's conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena. The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of ' modern' e…
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Die Metapher von der "unsichtbaren Hand" kennzeichnet nicht nur Smithʼ Verständnis von Wettbewerbsprozessen auf Märkten, sondern auch seine Theorie des politischen Liberalismus. Smith geht davon aus, dass es in der Moral, in der Entwicklung des Rechts und in der Ordnung der Gese…
Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population is such a provocative and, for many, infuriating text, that since the nineteenth century it has been practically synonymous with the whole of classical political economy’s treatment of the population question. As a result, Ma…
This thesis has two aims; to explore the economic notions of trust to develop a coherent understanding of trust within economics and to apply this understanding to the operation of money and banking. There has been a recent explosion of work about trust within economics but litt…
Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a…