An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between ...
Appearance And Reality - The Existence Of Matter - The Nature Of Matter - Idealism - Knowledge By Acquaintance And Knowledge By Description - On Induction - On Our Knowled...
Перевернув с ног на голову все представления о законах экономики, эта провокационная книга стала мировым бестселлером. Экономист Стивен Левитт и журналист Стивен Дабнер ра...
What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the quest...
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the s...
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the...
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph" writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital , the worl...
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth...
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been m...
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was ...
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'
Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential pol...
Кристофер Тейлор Бакли — американский писатель и журналист, хорошо знающий политическую кухню изнутри (спичрайтер Джорджа Буша-старшего в его бытность вице-президентом), а...