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  • Adam Smith’s America

    How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

    by Glory M. Liu ...
    The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Adam Smith's America

    How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

    by Glory M. Liu ...
    Narrated by Kate Udall ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention.Liu tells the story of how an ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Illiberal Reformers

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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

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  • Reading Obama

    Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideasDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and ... Read more

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  • Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

    by Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood ...
    Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy.Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address ... Read more

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  • Malthus

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    by Donald Winch ...
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    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... Read more

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  • Human Rights

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    Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin expose the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a powerful but generous treatise on the modern salience of the term.“Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin have published an excellent ... Read more

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  • Renewing Black Intellectual History

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