(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Macat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial too. This 1798 work inspired naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to develop the theory of natural selection. But it has also sparked criticism-Karl Marx famously called Malthus a "lackey of the bourgeoisie." Yet this hasn't stopped leading present-day environmentalists from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Published in 1938, Cyril Lionel Robert (C. L. R.) James's The Black Jacobins is the little-known story of the only successful slave revolution known in history. It was this 12-year struggle of the African slaves in the French colony of San Domingo that led to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. The uprising was inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution that had begun in 1789, just two years before, and in this work James goes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Does capitalism have a natural tendency towards a just and reasonable distribution of wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty thinks not.
In his bestselling 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Piketty takes issue with the idea that-despite the odd bump along the way, not least the 2007—08 global financial crisis-inequality (the gaps in income and wealth between rich and poor) tends to decline as capitalism matures.
Piketty spent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek's 1944 work, The Road to Serfdom, analyzes the ways in which excessive government planning can erode democracy. Published in 1944, while World War II still raged, the work draws influential parallels between the totalitarianism of both socialism and Nazism, and increasing control exerted by Western democracies.
Drawing on observable evidence from Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, Hayek demonstrates...