Rawls’ 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms.
In this book, the author’s familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him to present a coherent theoretical structure that links private exchange between individuals, business and banks to condition the markets affecting money and credit.
Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic... Læs mere
A critical analysis of Argyris’s Integrating The Individual and the Organization, in which Chris Argyris... Læs mere
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity is a perfect example of one of the most effective aspects of critical thinking skills: the use of reasoning to build a strong, logical argument.
Written around 397, Confessions is one of the most referenced works in the Western literary tradition. The initial nine of 13 books draw a compelling narrative of the first 43 years of... Læs mere
How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and... Læs mere
Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts studying how these movements... Læs mere
Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is the key factor in determining success in life and that it is genetic and, more controversially still, that some ethnic groups are more intelligent than others.
The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings—the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions—to consider the forces that make such dramatic upheaval possible.
Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course of his life turned in 1774, when he met the great American statesman Benjamin Franklin in London.