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  • The Return of the State

    And Why it is Essential for our Health, Wealth and Happiness

    by Graeme Garrard ...
    A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for goodFor decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory.Graeme ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Return of the State

    And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    by Graeme Garrard ...
    Narrated by Thom Rivera ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for goodFor decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory.Graeme ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Counter-Enlightenments

    From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    by Graeme Garrard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas.Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment thought from its inception in the eighteenth century right through to the present. Engaging in a critical ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • How to Think Politically

    Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

    by Professor James Bernard Murphy, Dr Graeme Garrard ...
    'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven PinkerWhat is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political thinkers who have ever ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

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  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

    Thinkers of the New Left

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neoliberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

    and Other Writings

    by Max Weber, Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    Translated by Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Political Origins of Inequality

    Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

    by Simon Reid-Henry ...
    This far-reaching study examines how political policies and paradigms have deepened global inequality, and how to reframe the debate to address it.Inequality is the defining issue of our time—one in which the global 1% now owns half the world's wealth. In this magisterial study, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the story of globalization as one about the management of inequality. Reaching back to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geography of the World Economy

    by Paul Knox, Linda Mccarthy, John Agnew ...
    The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the globalization of the world economy. The book offers a consideration of local, regional, national and global economic development over the long historical term. The theory and practice of economic and political geography provide a basis for understanding the interactions within and among the developed and ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • The Logic of Discipline

    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD