Новите заглавия в Икономическата библиотека на ИПИ и БМА
18-22 октомври 2010
„Едно общество от овце с времето задължително ще създаде правителство от вълци.“
Бертран де Жувенел
Бертран де Жувенел (1903-1987) е френски философ, футурист, писател, представен в нашата библиотека с три негови книги.
On Power
Liberty Fund, 1993
Documenting the process by which government and controlling majorities have grown increasingly powerful and tyrannical, Bertrand de Jouvenel demonstrates how democracies have failed to limit the powers of government. This development Jouvenel traces all the way back to the days of royal absolutism, which established large administrative bureaucracies and thus laid the foundation of the modern omnipotent state.
Sovereignty
Liberty Fund, 1998
„Who decides? Who is the Sovereign? What is a good act?“ In quest of answers to these vitally important questions, Bertrand de Jouvenel examines successively the nature and history of authority, the political good, the sovereign, and liberty. His concern is with „the prospects for individual liberty in democratic societies in which sovereignty purportedly resides in the whole people of the body politic.“ His objective is a definition and understanding of „the canons of conduct for the public authority of a dynamic society.“ He writes for „whoever would exercise the duties of a citizen.“ Sovereignty is the sequel to Jouvenel’s widely acclaimed On Power, and was originally published in 1955.
The Ethics of Redistribution
Liberty Fund, 1990
In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional efforts sap incentives and are economically destructive. Rather, he stresses the commonly disregarded ethical arguments showing that redistribution is ethically indefensible for, and practically unworkable in, a complex society.
A new introduction relates Jouvenel’s arguments to current discussions about the redistributionist state and draws out many of the points of affinity with the works of Buchanan, Hayek, Rawls, and others.
Economics and the Public Welfare
Benjamin M. Anderson
Liberty Press, 1980
In the turbulent years between passage of the Federal Reserve Act (1913) and the Bretton Woods Agreement (1945), the peoples of the Western world suffered two World Wars, two major and several minor international financial panics, an epidemic of currency devaluations and debt repudiations, civil wars, and revolutions. No period in history could serve better as a case study for the analysis of applied economic policy. From his vantage point as economist for the Chase Manhattan Bank and editor of the Chase Economic Bulletin, who participated in much of what he records, Dr. Anderson here describes the climactic events of a turbulent era.
Какво е да си индивидуалист? Либерал? Отговорите вероятно ще намерите в следващото заглавие
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century
A.V. Dicey
Liberty Fund, 2007
This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. It is an accessible attempt by an Edwardian liberal to make sense of recent British history. In our time, it helps define what it means to be an individualist or liberal. Dicey’s lectures were a reflection of the anxieties felt by turn-of-the-century Benthamite Liberals in the face of Socialist and New Liberal challenges.
И на последно, но не по значение място
The Collected Works of Armen A. Alchian
2-Volume Set
Liberty Fund, 2006
Liberty Fund is proud to present, in two volumes, The Collected Works of Armen A. Alchian,bringing together Alchian’s most influential essays, articles, editorials, and lectures to provide a comprehensive record of his thinking on a broad range of topics in economics. As various and as specific as some of this collection’s topics are, they are unified, as editor Daniel K. Benjamin writes, by “both a coherent methodology for doing economics, and a view of the world that celebrates the importance of individual liberty.” Benjamin goes on to state that, in Alchian’s view, “the purpose of theory is never theory in and of itself; it is instead to help individuals understand the world around them.”
