School Of Thought 101 Great Liberal Thinkers

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367776

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School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers by Eamonn Butler Pdf

School of Thought – 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty – from ancient times to the present day. Award-winning author Eamonn Butler outlines key elements of liberal thought and takes a chronological look at those who shaped it across the centuries. He identifies their common goals – but also highlights their differing views on, for example, the extent of government involvement in our daily lives. For anyone interested in politics, government, social institutions, capitalism, rights, liberty and morality, School of Thought – 101 Great Liberal Thinkers provides a clear and concise introduction to a set of radical ideas – and the thinkers behind them.

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780255367981

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An Introduction to Democracy by Eamonn Butler Pdf

What is democracy? How does it work? What are its strengths – and its shortcomings? Two-thirds of the world’s population, in over 100 countries, live under governments that claim to be democratic. Yet few of those governments live up to the ideals of democracy, or respect its key principles and institutions. Here, author Eamonn Butler defines democracy, explains its purposes, and shows the difference between genuine democracy and the many sham versions that currently exist. He outlines the history of democracy and the benefits it brings. But he also points out the many myths about it that blind us to its limitations. And he explains why it’s important to have a clear understanding of democracy – and how easily it can be lost or abused when people do not properly understand it. Importantly, he asks why so many people today have become disillusioned with democratic politics – and what, if anything, can be done about it. This lucid and fascinating book provides a straightforward introduction to democracy, enabling anyone to understand it – even if they’ve never experienced it.

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367950

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An Introduction to Entrepreneurship by Eamonn Butler Pdf

Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in boosting progress, productivity and prosperity. They drive economic growth and create new opportunities. Their innovations transform people’s lives. Yet their enormous contribution is not widely understood – and is often completely overlooked in economics textbooks. Here, author Eamonn Butler sets the record straight – explaining the vital role of entrepreneurship, exploring its economic and social significance, and examining the conditions needed for it to thrive. Along the way, he considers the kind of “unusual” people who become entrepreneurs. Who knew, for example, that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Uber founder Travis Kalanick all dropped out of university? Or that Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and IKEA founder Ingvar Kampgrad never went to university at all? An introduction to Entrepreneurship spotlights the strengths of entrepreneurship, whilst acknowledging its shortcomings. It discusses (often-misguided) attempts by governments to foster it. And it eloquently states the case for rehabilitating entrepreneurship into mainstream economics and politics. Above all, it provides an appreciation of – and a basic introduction to – what entrepreneurship is, why we need it, and how we can encourage it.

Author : Amy H. Sturgis
Publisher : Lockesmith Inst
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0964112000

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Great Thinkers in Classical Liberalism by Amy H. Sturgis Pdf

Author : Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367837

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Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis by Jacob Rees-Mogg,Radomir Tylecote,Stephen Ashmead,Calvin Chan,Ben Clements,Luke McWatters,Daniel Pycock,Thomas Schaffner,Charles Shaw,Gintas Vilkelis,William Watts Pdf

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era – the UK’s housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home. At the core of this is one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world – a system that plainly doesn’t work. A system that has resulted in too few houses, which are too small, which people do not like and which are in the wrong places, a system that stifles movement and breeds Nimbyism. The IEA’s 2018 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize, with a first prize of £50,000, sought free-market solutions to this complex and divisive problem. Here, Breakthrough Prize judge Jacob Rees-Mogg and IEA Senior Research Analyst Radomir Tylecote critique a complex system of planning and taxation that has signally failed to provide homes, preserve an attractive environment and enhance our cities. They then draw from the winning entries to the Breakthrough Prize, and previous IEA research, to put forward a series of radical and innovative measures – from releasing vast swathes of government-owned land to relaxing the suffocating grip of the green belt. Together with cutting and devolving tax, and reforms to allow cities to both densify and beautify, this would create many more homes and help restore property-owning democracy in the UK.

Author : Nima Sanandaji
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367899

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The Henry Fords of Healthcare: ...Lessons the West Can Learn from the East by Nima Sanandaji Pdf

How can health services in the UK and Europe be improved? And can costs be reduced at the same time? Over the years, many ideas have been put forward – from increased spending on preventive healthcare to the better use of technology to reduce bureaucracy and ‘pay for performance’ schemes. But author Nima Sanandaji says this is merely tinkering at the margins. What’s needed, he argues, is a completely new approach – one which embraces disruptive innovations from a new breed of entrepreneurs. Allowing true entrepreneurialism in healthcare might be considered extreme in a Western setting – but he points to a spectacular wave of success in the East to support his case. In India, Thailand, China and the Middle East, entrepreneurs have drawn inspiration from the motor industry to streamline procedures and create economies of scale. In areas such as heart surgery, they’ve dramatically driven down costs – and dramatically improved outcomes. So much so that the new market economies of the East are now, he contends, many steps of ahead of the West. In The Henry Fords of Healthcare Sanandaji outlines the lessons the West can now learn from the East, making a radical, compelling and controversial contribution to the debate on our own ailing health systems.

Author : Michael C. Munger
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367929

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The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises by Michael C. Munger Pdf

Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that ‘place’ was a market or, more recently, a shopping mall. But in the past two decades these physical locations have increasingly been replaced by their virtual counterparts – online platforms. Here, author Michael C. Munger demonstrates how these platforms act as matchmakers or middlemen, a role traders have adopted since the very first exchanges thousands of years ago. The difference today is that the matchmakers often play no direct part in buying or selling anything – they just help buyers and sellers find each other. Their major contribution has been to reduce the costs of organising and completing purchases, rentals or exchanges. The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises contends that the key role of online platforms is to create reductions in transaction costs and it highlights the importance of three ‘Ts’ - triangulation, transfer and trust – in bringing down those costs.

Author : J. R. Shackleton,David S. Oderberg,Philip Booth,Nick Cowen,Stephen Davies,Claire Fox,Dennis Hayes,Victoria Hewson,Leo Kearse,Jacob Mchangama
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780255368018

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Having Your Say by J. R. Shackleton,David S. Oderberg,Philip Booth,Nick Cowen,Stephen Davies,Claire Fox,Dennis Hayes,Victoria Hewson,Leo Kearse,Jacob Mchangama Pdf

Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of classical liberalism. And they provide informed and incisive insights on this worrying trend, which threatens to usher in a new, intolerant and censorious era.

Author : Jamie Whyte
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780255368070

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Why Free Speech Matters by Jamie Whyte Pdf

What is free speech? How is it under threat? And why should it be defended at all costs? In this succinct and insightful book, author Jamie Whyte contends that free speech brings fundamental benefits to society – it promotes the growth of knowledge and provides an essential bulwark against tyranny. He argues against new attempts to constrain free speech – particularly in social media – and critiques the rationale of politicians and activists who seek to limit it. And he proposes a key test – a limiting principle – which legislators and judges should apply against any proposed curtailment of free speech. Being offensive, for example, wouldn’t pass this test – because important new ideas are often offensive to people whose worldview they challenge. Whyte also issues a rallying cry: Those who prize free speech must once again come to its defence – as he outlines exactly Why Free Speech Matters.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780255367080

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Classical Liberalism – A Primer by Eamonn Butler Pdf

This primer aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles, personalities and key developments in classical liberalism. It is designed for students and lay readers who may understand the general concepts of social, political and economic freedom, but who would like a systematic presentation of its essential elements.

Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691163680

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The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan Pdf

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal tradition The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition—and worried about its future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

Author : F. A. Hayek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317541981

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The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek Pdf

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. This new edition includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials and forewords to earlier editions by the likes of Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.

Author : Kenneth R. Minogue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : PSU:000047243385

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The Liberal Mind by Kenneth R. Minogue Pdf

Kenneth Minogue offers a brilliant and provocative exploration of liberalism in the Western world today: its roots and its influences, its present state, and its prospects in the new century. The Liberal Mind limns the taxonomy of a way of thinking that constitutes the very consciousness of most people in most Western countries. Kenneth Minogue is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of London. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Author : Edmund Fawcett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691168395

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Liberalism by Edmund Fawcett Pdf

A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to today Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism—the first in English for many decades—traces liberalism’s ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early nineteenth century to today. An enlightening account of a vulnerable but critically important political creed, Liberalism provides the vital historical and intellectual background for hard thinking about liberal democracy’s future.