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  • The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

    de Megan Gallagher, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Rebecca Kingston, Peter Lund, Michael Mosher, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Helena Rosenblatt, John T. Scott, Robert Sparling, Céline Spector, Lee Ward, Stuart D. Warner, Dr. Pauline Kra, Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of letters largely written by ... Leer más

    $93.19 USD

  • An Age of Risk

    Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain

    de Emily Nacol ...
    In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

    de Robert Nozick ...
    The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Conflict And The Web Of Group Affiliations

    de George Simmel ...
    Two major essays on the dynamics of social organization by the great German philosopher and social theorist Georg Simmel. ... Leer más

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  • Free Trade Reimagined

    The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics

    de Roberto Mangabeira Unger ...
    Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined.Unger's intervention in this major ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    de Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Leer más

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  • The Sociology of Law

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    de A. Javier Trevino ...
    Series series Law and Society
    The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As such, the text gives a comprehensive overview of theoretical sociology of law. It deals with the broad expanse of the field and covers a vast amount of intellectual terrain. This volume is intended to fill a gap in the literature. Most textbooks in ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Dignity, Rank, and Rights

    de Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Behind the Veil of Economics

    de Robert L. Heilbroner ...
    "[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book ReviewWhat lies behind the veil of economics? Power and ideology, answers Robert Heilbroner—the power of our economic involvement in society to ... Leer más

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  • Risk and Blame

    Essays in Cultural Theory

    de Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops ... Leer más

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  • The Social Contract Theorists

    Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau

    de John Charvet, Joshua Cohen, David Gauthier, M M. Goldsmith, Jean Hampton, Gregory S. Kavka, Patrick Riley, Arthur Ripstein, A John Simmons ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully selected essays guide students through the texts, familiarizing them with key elements of the theory, while at the same time introducing them to ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Justice by Lottery

    de Barbara Goodwin ...
    This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. The first chapter is a utopian fragment about a future country, Aleatoria, where everything, including political power, jobs and money, is distributed by lottery. The rest of the book is devoted to considering the idea of the lottery in terms of the conventional components and assumptions of theories of justice, and to ... Leer más

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