The Wealth of Nations Bantam Classics

The wealth of nationsby adam smithit is symbolic that adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.

The wealth of nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy. The result of smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. The wealth of Nations.

In his book, smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy.


The Theory of Moral Sentiments

The theory of moral sentiments divides moral philosophy into four parts: Ethics and Virtue; Private rights and Natural liberty; Familial rights called Economics; and State and Individual rights called Politics. In his first major work, economist Adam Smith concentrates on ethics and charity. Smith establishes the intellectual framework for all of his later work, including The Wealth of Nations.

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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Selected by the times literary supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.

The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on. University of Chicago Press.


The Communist Manifesto

The communist manifesto, originally titled manifesto of the Communist Party German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 13116. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted.

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Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one.

International Publishers. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle historical and present and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.


The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

International Publishers. Great Recession. Philosophy. Finance. Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. University of Chicago Press. Economics. Heilbroner. 13116. Index. Great Depression. Same day shipping. I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system” Robert L.

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Das Kapital: A Critque of Political Economy

13116. Great Recession. One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Great Depression. Capital" rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties, and ultimately throughout the world, particularly in Russia and Germany, to become a work described by Marx's friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the Working Class'.

Philosophy. Finance. Economics. Living in exile in england, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh insights. University of Chicago Press. Arguing that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production.

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments Penguin Classics

Economics. Great Depression. University of Chicago Press. International Publishers. Penguin Books. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Same day shipping. Great Recession. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

13116. Smith's classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgement and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Philosophy. In his first book, the theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good.

Finance. Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher.


Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader

Too often, however, these works have been mere distillations of the views of the great thinkers. Used book in Good Condition. They did not intend nor could they hope to capture the subtleties and nuances of the original texts. Finance. Philosophy. Here we find lengthy excerpts from marx's communist manifesto and The German Ideology, Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Durkheim's The Division of Labour in Society and Suicide: A Study in Sociology.

Generous portions of fifteen other texts are included here, as well as selected correspondence of Karl Marx. Great Recession. International Publishers. Brief biographies of the principals and guides for further reading provide the student with a frame of reference for the texts. Same day shipping. Each extract is prefaced by an introduction which provides the reader with essential background information on each author's Weltanschauung, without telling the student what to think or encapsulating the excerpt to follow.

It is, an enticement, however, whetting the appetite for further exploration of the masters of sociological thought. With the publication of ian mcintosh's classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, extracts of the most relevant and noteworthy works of the classical sociological thinkers are available for the first time in a single volume.

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2

University of Chicago Press. Same day shipping. 13116. Philosophy. Used book in Good Condition. A. The first printing of 2, and within six months more than 30, 000 copies was exhausted instantly, 000 books were sold. International Publishers. An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and economics, intellectual and cultural history, and general readers for half a century.

Great Depression. Economics. Penguin Books. In april 1945, reader’s digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600, 000 readers. Great product! A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400, 000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.

With this new edition, the road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought.

Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes.


The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Finance. In so doing, conscience, Smith devised innovative theories on virtues, and moral judgment that are still relevant and accessible today. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Penguin Books. Tracking provided on most orders. Economics. International Publishers.

Though somewhat surprising to find a philosopher of smith's abilities discussing aspects such as luck and sympathy and how they affect self-image or relationships, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" never loses its critical excellence in its good-natured understanding of the human exploration for the meaning of being good.

Great product! Great Depression. 13116. Used book in Good Condition. Great Recession. Condition: New. Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. Same day shipping. Written in 1759 by scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" provides much of the foundation for the ideas in his later works, most notably in "The Wealth of Nations.




Two Treatises of Government Everyman's Library

13116. Same day shipping. When rulers became tyrants and act against the common good, then the people have the right of revolution against them. University of Chicago Press. Economics. John locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. Great product! Philosophy. Penguin Books. Writing against the backdrop of charles II's savage purge of the Whig movement, Locke set out to attack the fabric of the divine right of rulers.

Tracking provided on most orders. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority except by the consent of the people. International Publishers. The rights of property– owners, the need for economic improvement, the separation of commands, and of women and children, of Native Americans, and the nature and limits of consent—these are all topics within Locke's compass and make this book the subject of intense debate.

This is the first modernized edition of the Two Treatises based on Locke's own corrected text as he left it for posterity at his death. It includes an introduction, chronology of Locke's life and times, extensive glossary and keyword index. Great Recession. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Finance.