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  • Ethics and the National Economy

    by Heinrich Pesch ...
    Translated by Dr. Rupert Ederer ...
    Written toward the end of World War I, this study of economics tackles the issue from the standpoint of religion and philosophy by summarizing the Catholic school of economics, which insists that the welfare of human beings belongs at the center of any real economy and that other systems that place either the individual or the state at the center of their schemes are not only false, but actually ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Sane Society

    by Erich Fromm ...
    A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom ."A distinguished contribution to a growing body of social-psychological reflections on modern times." — The Washington PostOne of Fromm's main interests was to analyze social sy... ... Read more

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  • How to be a conservative

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? ... Read more

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  • The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

    and Other Writings

    by Max Weber, Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    Translated by Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

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  • The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    by Max Weber ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. Based on the original 1905 edition, this volume includes, along with Weber's treatise, an illuminating introduction, a wealth of explanatory notes, and exemplary ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Mind and the Market

    Capitalism in Western Thought

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developed in Western thought.Ranging across an ideological spectrum that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Servile Mind

    How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is playing out in our century: as the ... Read more

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  • Politics and Vision

    Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition

    by Sheldon S. Wolin ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both a sweeping survey ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • State of Crisis

    by Zygmunt Bauman, Carlo Bordoni ...
    Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Beyond Capitalism & Socialism

    A New Statement of an Old Ideal

    by John Sharpe ...
    Explaining the socio-economic theory of distributism, this anthology argues that political, economic, and social liberties and freedom are penalized under both socialism and capitalism. With distributism-and other "third way" alternatives to capitalism-the human person, the family, and the community take precedence over bureaucrats and barons. Society exists for man, not the other way around. ... Read more

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  • Shadow Work

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: "...to name those acts of competence, lust or ... Read more

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  • The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

    A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    "[A] brilliant and creative vindication of democracy . . . a theology of Western culture which remains intellectually unsurpassed." —Larry Rasmussen in Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public LifeThe Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the ... Read more

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