Liberty fund jun 2000 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - General Israel Putnam is remembered in history and legend as exclaiming to the American soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 'Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!' As Dowling notes, 'All the episodes are retold -- Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Princeton -- but from the perspective of one who was there throughout, and who always permits us to see Putnam as the sort of character by whom history is, in the last analysis, made.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are: Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940) An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe (1943) Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy (1943) Mexico's Economic Problems (1943) The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies (1944) A Noninflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction (1944) Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Richard Ebeling is Professor of Economics at Northwood University.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A reviewer of the original edition in 1970 of The Perfectibility of Man well summarizes the scope and significance of this renowned work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century: 'Beginning with an analytic discussion of the various ways in which perfectibility has been interpreted, Professor Passmore traces its long history from the Greeks to the present day, by way of Christianity, orthodox and heterodox, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, anarchism, utopias, communism, psychoanalysis, and evolutionary theories of man and society. Both in its broad sweep and in countless supporting reflections, it is a journey through spiritual scenery of the most majestic and exhilarating kind.' Thoroughly and elegantly, Passmore explores the history of the idea of perfectibility-manifest in the ideology of perfectibilism-and its consequences, which have invariably been catastrophic for individual liberty and responsibility in private, social, economic, and political life. John Passmore served for many years as a Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the final volume in Jouvenel's magnum opus, the trilogy that begins with On Power, moves to Sovereignty, and concludes with The Pure Theory of Politics. In this volume, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious deficiency in political science: 'the lack of agreement on first principles, or 'elements.'' The author's concern is with political processes as they actually exist, not as they are conjectured to be in hypothetical models. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Humphreys was aide-de-camp to Washington during the American Revolution. His Life of Israel Putnam, originally published in 1788, has rightly been described as 'the first biography of an American written by an American.' It is, as William C. Dowling observes, 'a classic of revolutionary writing, very readable and immensely interesting in what it says about the temper of the new republic in the period immediately after the American Revolution.' The subject-General Israel Putnam-is remembered to history and legend as exclaiming: 'Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!' to American soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill. As Professor Dowling notes, 'All the episodes are retold-Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Princeton-but from the perspective of one who was there throughout, and who always permits us to see Putnam as the sort of character by whom history is, in the last analysis, made.' Humphreys wrote the biography when formation of the Society of the Cincinnati, composed of men who were officers in the Revolution, 'focused debate in the new republic about the competing claims of individual liberty and the good of the community.' William C. Dowling is a Professor of English at Rutgers University.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are: Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940) An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of a Durable Peace in Eastern Europe (1943) Aspects of American Foreign Trade Policy (1943) Mexico's Economic Problems (1943) The Main Issues in Present-Day Monetary Controversies (1944) A Noninflationary Proposal for Post-War Monetary Reconstruction (1944) Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Richard Ebeling is Professor of Economics at Northwood University.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the final volume in Jouvenel's magnum opus, the trilogy that begins with On Power, moves to Sovereignty, and concludes with The Pure Theory of Politics. In this volume, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious deficiency in political science: 'the lack of agreement on first principles, or 'elements.'' The author's concern is with political processes as they actually exist, not as they are conjectured to be in hypothetical models.…