Harvard University Press, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN 9780674724594. Translation of: La société des égaux , Éditions du Seuil, 2011. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by...
Verso, 2009. — xviii, 561 p. — ISBN 9781844673124. The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today's EU has been theorized across a range of...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. — 280 p. — ISBN 978-1-4422-1201-5. At a time when political labels are hurled carelessly in the public square, Sanford Lakoff provides a careful and highly accessible introduction to ten political ideas that have shaped modern thinking. Each chapter traces the history and examines the meaning of one of these ideas, clarifying its meaning and impact...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — XI, 204 p. — ISBN 978-0-333-72443-9. This volume addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them: what does it mean to be a European? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or...
State University of New York, 2007. — 178 p. — (SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy). — ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7175-3. In Zionism , the late Nathan Rotenstreich traces the dialectical connections between Zionism's past and present based on his contention that the Jewish nation comprises both the State of Israel and the Diaspora. He also addresses relations between both Israel and the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — xiv, 261 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-19-978245-1. The relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret—and the occasional brilliant success—since Plato himself. This book examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore...
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. — 225 p. — ISBN 9780754678052. This innovative study presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russian neo-eurasianists and the neo-conservatives in the United States. It traces the growth of nationalism and the concept of 'Empire' in relation to the ideologies...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xxxvi, 261 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-521-88369-6. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the central figure in American political thought. Until recently, his vast influence was most often measured by its impact on literature, philosophy and aesthetics. In particular, Emerson is largely responsible for introducing idealism into America in the form of living one's...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — xiv, 569 p. — ISBN 0-521-62311-1. International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback,...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — xx, 220 p. — ISBN-13: 9780195152777. What Americans know, understand, and believe about the world of politics is the product of a negotiation between journalists and political actors. The news is primarily shaped not by a liberal or conservative bias, but by the need for news to be dramatic and easily packaged. Consequently, the frames into...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — xxxvi, 148 p. — (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). — ISBN-13 978-0-521-38347-9. Edited and translated by Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought. The Holy History of Mankind appeared in 1837, and was the first book-length...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 2009. — xii, 253 p. — (International Library of Cultural Studies, 4). — ISBN: 9781845118075. Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent. Best known today as the...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2006. — xxxviii, 287 p. — (The Ameican heritage series). — ISBN 0-87220-748-X. Edited, with Introduction, by Jean M. Yarbrough. Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings—including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal correspondence—this volume traces the development of his thinking on such...
Routledge, 2005. — xiv, 262 p. — (What is Europe?) — ISBN 0-415-12418-2. These essays go beyond conventional studies of the institutions and parties of Europe to address Europe's democractic future more widely. While the book does offer an analysis of the democratic institutions of European countries, identifying common features and differences, as the editors put it,...
Routledge, 2005. — 252 p. — ISBN 9780415950510. "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus," wrote foreign policy guru Robert Kagan famously in his book Of Paradise and Power , which became an instant New York Times bestseller last year. Taking Kagan one step further, prominent foreign policy specialists - such as Walter Russell Mead, Timothy Garton Ash, and Francis...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 356 p. — ISBN 9780714684420. The pursuit of stability drove British foreign policy even before 1865. These papers assess the implications of such a policy during the following 100 years when Britain slid from being the only global power to a regional European state. British Power and Stability: The Historical Record. Power, Sovereignty, and the Great...
Brill, 2010. — 270 p. — (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume 64). — ISBN: 978-90-420-2942-2. Far from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of “actually existing communism” served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however, is how we might understand and respond to these new...
Routledge, 2005. — 243 p. — ISBN 0-203-02104-5. A sweeping intellectual history that will make us rethink postwar politics and culture, When America Was Great profiles the thinkers and writers who crafted a new American liberal tradition in a conservative era -- from historians Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and C. Vann Woodward, to economist John Kenneth Galbraith and theologian...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — x, 278 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-81995-4. The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came in the...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. — xxvi, 6154 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933550-93-0. Ludwig von Mises said that there can never be too much of a good theory. Salerno proves it in this sweeping and nearly comprehensive book on applied Austrian monetary theory. He uses the Mises/Rothbard theory of money to reinterpret historical episodes, reevaluate the history of thought, closely...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. — xvi, 366 p. — ISBN 0-375-40619-0. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development - for both rich and poor - in the 21st century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of...
Snowball Publishing, 2009. — 235 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1607961833. In economics, money illusion refers to the tendency of people to think of currency in nominal, rather than real, terms. This is a fallacy as modern fiat currencies have no inherent value and their real value is derived from their ability to be exchanged for goods and used for payment of taxes. The term was coined by...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010. — xxii, 227 p. — ISBN 978-0-470-52670-5. How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof , Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — xi, 293 p. — (Studies in Comparative World History). — ISBN 0-521-26931-8. A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — xx, 376 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-14646-1. The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the financial...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — viii, 278 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-230-61750-6. This epic biography tells the story of the rise of Wall Street and the growth of Goldman Sachs from a small commercial paper company to the international banking business we know today. At its heart is the story of Henry Goldman, a man who spoke out passionately for his beliefs, understood the importance of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — xiii, 249 p. — ISBN: 9780521840613. A ground-breaking 2005 exploration of multinational corporations that differs from other books on the subject by offering the reader a totally global perspective of multinationals without portraying them simply as economic entities. Written by experts on various aspects of the history, development, cultural...
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 2006. — xix, 319 p. — ISBN 0-911312-98-6. This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China. Henry George lived through a...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — viii, 265 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-13937-1. Lucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history—from the classical gold standard to today’s post–Bretton Woods...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. — x, 205 p. — ISBN 0-275-98750-7. Budget deficits, gas prices, health care costs, social security, job security... Anxiety over the economy pervades our daily lives―from reports on the early morning newscasts to gossip around the water cooler to dinner table debate. Yet most citizens are woefully ignorant when it comes to understanding how the...
Routledge, 2007. — xiii, 330 p. — ISBN 0-203-49571-3. Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this provocative and topical new book presents economic globalization not as a recent development, but rather as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history. Michael McKinley argues that it is ultimately a self-serving, arbitrary...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006. — xi, 108 p. — ISBN13 978-1-933550-01-5. Economic Policy contains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios sobre la Libertad in Argentina. The lectures were posthumously edited by Mises’s wife, Margit, and George Koether, a student and long-time friend of Mises. This volume serves as an excellent introduction...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — xxvii, 315 p. — ISBN 0–19–929090–3; 978–0–19–929090–1. How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. — 307 p. — ISBN 0-8061-1338-3. Elgin Groseclose presents this history of people's experiences with money through the centuries. I would propose no greater service to the profession and to the country than that monetary economists begin a revision of their concepts of money, to draw a distinction between the attributes of money and its...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — ix, 207 p. — ISBN 0-19-874201-0. The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. Most analyses believe the the emerging postindustrial society is overdetermined by massive, convergent forces, such as tertiarization, new technologies,...
Harvard University Press, 1999. — viii, 334 p. Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were...
Foundation for Economic Education, 2004. — xix, 90 p. — ISBN 1–57246–208–6. This is a "new" book by Ludwig von Mises, the first of a series of lecture transcripts drawn from careful notes taken by Bettina Bien Greaves in the summer of 1951. It features Mises in a role in which we do not usually find him, not as a writer but as a speaker of enormous erudition and power. There...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — xii, 237 p. In popular imagery, Herbert Hoover is often stereotyped as a 'do-nothing' president who offered only nineteenth-century slogans for the greatest economic catastrophe in twentieth-century American history. Nothing could be further from the truth. This study examines the properties of an innovative approach to economic growth and...
Secker & Warburg, 2000. — xviii, 414 p. In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. Frank's target is "market populism"—the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic form of organization than democratically...
Oxford University Press, 1954. — 209 p. "Economic Doctrine and Method" deals with the progress of economics as a science and particularly with the historical sequence in which economic theories have developed. Successive doctrines are viewed as progressive expansions, clarifications and refinements of one another in an evolution toward a "pure" science of economics. Schumpeter...
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. — 243 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4051-7. This book examines the socio-economic and gendered identities and how they are revealed on the traditional holidays in English life during 1425-1625. By examining the various holidays and celebrations, a view of life is presented that may coincide with social ranking, financial status, and gender roles....
Algora Publishing, 2006. — 492 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87586-356-6. What happened to homosexuals during and after World War II has been described in other books; here, Florence Tamagne traces the different trends in Germany, England and France in the period leading up to that cataclysm and provides important background to any understanding of the later events. The period between the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — xviii, 290 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-521-82134-6. Few phenomena have been more disruptive to West European politics and society than the accumulative experience of post-WWII immigration. Against this backdrop spring two questions: Why have the immigrant-receiving states historically permitted high levels of immigration? To what degree can the social...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1993. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 1479327387. After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wide-ranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism? Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but uneducated in economics. This book is the antidote, covering the whole history of this nutty and dangerous system of...
HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 426 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-187950-0. A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future . Shama examines four themes—war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land—through the prism of the...
Routledge, 2007. — 395 p. — ISBN 9780415701471. Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point. Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and...
Praeger, 2009. — xiv, 504 p. — ISBN 978–0–313–35610–0. God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America is a comprehensive study of Christian conservative power in America's political culture―how it was achieved, how it is maintained, and where it is going. It came about in part because of an enduring influence in the school room, the...
Cambridge University Press. 2007. — xii, 283 p. — ISBN: 9780511487439. How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed,...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8078-4975-0. For the past two decades, trade policy has been high on the American political agenda, thanks to the growing integration of the United States into the global economy and the wealth of debate this development has sparked. Although scholars have explored many aspects of U.S. trade policy, there has...
Routledge, 2008. — 240 p. — (Russian and East European studies). — ISBN 0-203-93466-0. In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help...