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The Art of War

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

“The Art of War” is widely known as the masterpiece of the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu. The book is a highly acclaimed tutorial for managing conflicts and winning battles, not only in the military meaning, but also in career and life management. Sun Tzus theories are extremely popular among politicians and leaders in marketing and communication.

The Art of War

The Art of War

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The Art of War

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Detail Assessment and Planning (Chinese: 始計,始计) explores the five fundamental factors (the Way, seasons, terrain, leadership, and management) and seven elements that determine the outcomes of military … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Fable of the Bees

The Fable of the Bees – Bernard de Mandeville

Mandeville’s philosophy gave great offence at the time, and has always been stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading. His main thesis is that the actions of men cannot be divided into lower and higher. In the Fable he shows a society possessed of all the virtues “blest with content and honesty,” falling into apathy and utterly paralyzed. The absence of self-love is the death of progress. The so-called higher virtues are mere hypocrisy, and arise from the selfish desire to be superior to the brutes. He endeavours to show that all social laws are the crystallized results of selfish aggrandizement and protective alliances among the weak.

The Fable of the Bees

The Fable of the Bees

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Harmonies of Political Economy

Harmonies of Political Economy – Frédéric Bastiat

“Harmonies of Political Economy”, the last and principal work of Frédéric Bastiat, has been translated by Mr. Stirling, who says of it, “This great work, the child of Bastiat’s anxious hopes, the subject of his dying thoughts, …. is perhaps the most important and the most original contribution which the science of Political Economy has received since the days of Adam Smith.” Its design is thus explained in the author’s own words: “I undertake in this work,” he says, “to demonstrate the harmony of those laws of Providence which govern human society. What makes these laws harmonious and not discordant is, that all principles, all motives, all springs of action, all interests, cooperate Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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What is Free Trade?

What is Free Trade? – Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat’s “Sophismes Economiques” was translated during the free-trade agitation in England, by Mr. Porter, the author of ” Tho Progress of the Nation,” and was widely circulated, under the title of ” Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests.” It contains probably the most telling statement of the leading principles of tho free-trade theory ever published, and is perhaps unsurpassed in the happiness of its illustrations. Mr. Walter has apparently adopted Mr. Porter’s translation, and has adapted it to the use of the American reader by introducing American allusions and examples instead of French or English ones, and notably by setting up Horaco Greeley as a target for the satire and sarcasm.

What is Free Trade?

What is Free

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Economic Sophisms

Economic Sophisms – Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat’s “Economic Sophisms”, translated by Dr. Patrick James Stirling, were eagerly welcomed by students of political economy who were not really familiar with French. His object in this work was, as he says, “to refute the fallacies of the Protectionist School, then predominant in France, and to clear the way for the establishment of what he maintained to be the true system of economic science, which he desired to find on a new and peculiar theory of value, afterwards fully developed by him in the Harmonies.”

Economic Sophisms

Economic Sophisms

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Economic Sophisms

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Biography of Frédéric Bastiat (from Wikipedia):

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Essays on Political Economy

Essays on Political Economy – Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French classical liberal, economist and a politician. He was quintessential for the developement of the libertarianism and the Austrian School. This volume contains the following of his essays:

Capital And Interest
That Which Is Seen, And That Which Is Not Seen
Government
What Is Money?
The Law

 

Essays on Political Economy

Essays on Political Economy

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Essays on Political Economy

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Biography of Frédéric Bastiat (from Wikipedia):

Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, a port town in the south of France on the Bay of Biscay, on 29 June 1801. His father, Pierre Bastiat, was a prominent businessman in the town. His … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Essential Writings

Essential Writings – Nicholas Barbon

Nicholas Barbon was an English economist, physician, and financial speculator. He is widely conceived as one of the first proponents of the free market. This edition includes his most prominent essays:

An Apology For The Builder
A Discourse Of Trade
A Discourse Concerning
Coining The New Money Lighter

Essential Writings

Essential Writings

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Essential Writings

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Biography of Nicholas Barbon (from Wikipedia):

Nicholas Barbon was the eldest son of Praise-God Barebone (or Barbon), after whom the Barebone’s Parliament of 1653—the predecessor of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate—was named. Praise-God’s reputed Christian name was “Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned”, a variant of his son’s middle name. He became a religious separatist with Millenarianist beliefs, with … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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On the Law of War and Peace

On the Law of War and Peace – Hugo Grotius

“On The Law of War and Peace” was translated into many languages, and most law schools adopted it as the basis of the right of nations. Princes and statesmen consulted the book, and just as Alexander the Great always had a copy of Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ so the great Gustavus Adolphus always had with him a copy of Grotius’ work, to remind himself that even the most successful general must respect some laws. Grotius’ strength lies in his moderation and in the fact that he quotes copiously from the best authorities to fortify his views .

On the Law of War and Peace

On the Law of War and Peace

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The Works Volume 9

The Works Volume 9 – Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot was one of the most famous 19th-century British journalists and essayists, whose major works refer to government, economics, and literature. This is the ninth out of nine volumes with his most important writings, this one containing a wealth of essays thar he wrote for The Economist and The Saturday Review:

Mr. Disraeli
Lord Macaulay
The Death Of Count Cavour
The Limit Of Defensive Outlay
Mr. Stansfeld And Signor Mazzini
The Assassination Of Mr. Lincoln
Politics As A Profession
Oxford And Mr. Gladstone
Mr. Carlyle On Mr. Eyre
Why Mr. Disraeli Has Succeeded
Ath Of Lord Brougham
Lord Lawrence
The Uses Of Scotch Liberalism
… and many more …

The Works Volume 9

The Works Volume

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The Works Volume 8

The Works Volume 8 – Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot was one of the most famous 19th-century British journalists and essayists, whose major works refer to government, economics, and literature. This is the eighth out of nine volumes with his most important writings, this one containing early writings as well as his work “Physics and Politics”:

Physics and Politics
The Currency Monopoly
Principles Of Political Economy
Essay On The Comparative Advantages
Thoughts On Democracy
On The Character Of Mirabeau

The Works Volume 8

The Works Volume 8

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The Works Volume 8.

ISBN: 9783849690908

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Biography of Walter Bagehot (from Wikipedia):

Bagehot was born in Langport, Somerset, England, on 3 February 1826. His father, Thomas Watson Bagehot, was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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