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    Essential John Stuart Mill, The (Essential Scholars)

    by Sandra J. Peart ...
    Narrated by Satauna Howery ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - Essential Scholars

    Unabridged

    3 hours 25 min

    The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he spent many of his later years, on May 7, 1873.Mill had a very extraordinary, strenuous education, overseen by his ambitious father James, who believed that one becomes improved via education and, once educated, that is the end of the matter. John Mill was reading Greek at age three and Latin at the ... Read more

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  • Hayek on Mill

    The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    Series Book 16 - The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek
    Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Mill's extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill. Hayek first published the Mill-Taylor correspondence in 1951, and his edition soon became ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections on the Classical Canon in Economics

    Essays in Honour of Samuel Hollander

    Edited by Evelyn L. Forget, Sandra Peart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading international scholars in the history of economic thought re-examine the concepts of 'classical economics' and the 'canon', illuminating the roots and evolution of the contemporary discipline. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Street Porter and the Philosopher

    Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

    by David M. Levy, Sandra Peart ...
    Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought rediscovered it and rechristened it "analytical egalitarianism." In this volume, Sandra J. Peart and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The "Vanity of the Philosopher"

    From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics

    by David M. Levy, Sandra Peart ...
    The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name.Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical economics' doctrine of human equality. Responding to perennial accusations from the left and the right that the market economy ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Escape from Democracy

    The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy

    by David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart ...
    The orthodox view of economic policy holds that public deliberation sets the goals or ends, and then experts select the means to implement these goals. This assumes that experts are no more than trustworthy servants of the public interest. David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart examine the historical record to consider cases in which experts were trusted with disastrous results, such as eugenics, the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Towards an Economics of Natural Equals

    A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School

    by David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart ...
    The Virginia School's economics of natural equals makes consent critical for policy. Democracy is understood as government by discussion, not majority rule. The claim of efficiency unsupported by consent, as common in orthodox economics, appeals to social hierarchy. Politics becomes an act of exchange among equals where the economist is only entitled to offer advice to citizens, not to dictators. ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

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    Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists' support of markets in relation to the challenge of race and race relations and argues that their support of laissez-faire has traditionally been based upon a broader philosophical ... Read more

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  • The Hesitant Hand

    Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas

    by Steven G. Medema ...
    Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. The Hesitant Hand examines how subsequent economic thinkers have challenged or reaffirmed Smith's doctrine, some contending that society needs government to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A History of Economic Thought

    by William J. Barber ...
    This critical study of the development of systematic economic ideas explores them in both historical and contemporary contexts.Many of the issues that faced economists in the past are still with us. The theories and methods of such men as Adam Smith, T. R. Malthus, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, and J. M. Keynes are often relevant to us today. As the Great Recession taught ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Liberty

    by Murray N. Rothbard ...
    The authoritative text on the libertarian political positionIn recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position.Rothbard’s ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • In the Long Run We Are All Dead

    Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution

    by Geoff Mann ...
    A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crisesIn the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state ... Read more

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