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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

Friedrich A. Hayek · 192 pages

F.A. Hayek presents a fundamental examination and critique of the central issues of socialism. His analysis begins with David Hume's insight that 'the rules of morality ...are not conclusions of our reason.' 'Was Socialism a mistake?' he asks, and drawing upon research in evolutionary epistemology, moral tradition, and other current ethical thinking, he probes for answers. He argues that socialism

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Defending the Undefendable

Walter Block · 256 pages

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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government

Yaron Brook, Don Watkins · 269 pages

The author discusses how Ayn Rand's ideas and novels can be used as a model for the government.

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Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen · 366 pages

"Development as Freedom is a general exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This treatise analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of economic life and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare.

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Utopia for Realists: Why Making the World a Better Place Isn't a Fantasy and How We Can Do It

Rutger Bregman · 328 pages

From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you

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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel · 256 pages

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In this book the author takes on one of t

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Knowledge And Decisions

Thomas Sowell · 422 pages

"With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Annointed, Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firs

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Democracy--The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

Hans-Hermann Hoppe · 220 pages

The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical

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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis · 224 pages

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students

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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell · 176 pages

This is a collection of essays by Bertrand Russell first published in 1935. In the 1932 essay which gives the title to the volume, Russell propose people work for a maximum of 4 hours-per-day to think, socialise, etc. Other essays treat about sociology, philosophy and economy and also technical architectural problems are discussed in a social frame proposing solutions. **CONTENTS (original edit

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Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt · 256 pages

In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia

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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Alex J. Epstein · 256 pages

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The Marx-Engels Reader

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 686 pages

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen · 350 pages

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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Alois Schumpeter · 437 pages

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Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg · 64 pages

Summary:A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution. Reform or

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Reading Capital

Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar · 340 pages

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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams · 256 pages

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Whatever Happened to Justice?

Richard J. Maybury · 254 pages

Examines law and its connections with economics, discussing such areas as legal ethics, higher law, natural law, and common law.

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Specters of Marx

Jacques Derrida · 198 pages

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Why Marx Was Right

Terry Eagleton · 258 pages

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