The Social And Economic Philosophy Of John Adams

Author : Luke Mayville
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691183244

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John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville Pdf

Why American founding father John Adams feared the political power of the rich—and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequences Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville explores Adams’s deep concern with the way in which inequality threatens to corrode democracy and empower a small elite. Adams believed that wealth is politically powerful not merely because money buys influence, but also because citizens admire and even identify with the rich. Mayville explores Adams’s theory of wealth and power in the context of his broader concern about social and economic disparities—reflections that promise to illuminate contemporary debates about inequality and its political consequences. He also examines Adams’s ideas about how oligarchy might be countered. A compelling work of intellectual history, John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy has important lessons for today’s world.

Author : Frederick Clovis Le Comte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090089988

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The Social and Economic Philosophy of John Adams by Frederick Clovis Le Comte Pdf

Author : Richard Alan Ryerson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421419220

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John Adams's Republic by Richard Alan Ryerson Pdf

VIII. Redefining the Republican Tradition, 1784-1787 -- IX. John Adams's Republic in Republican America, 1787-1800 -- X.A Retrospective Retirement, 1801-1826 -- Conclusion: Memory and Desire in America's Republican Revolution -- Notes -- An Essay on Sources -- A Chronology of John Adams's Political Study and Writings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : CHI:40832257

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Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies by John Adams Pdf

Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674725614

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ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS by Emma Rothschild Pdf

A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world.

Author : Adam Smith (économiste)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092833964

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (économiste) Pdf

Author : Lall Ramrattan,Michael Szenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030055578

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American Exceptionalism by Lall Ramrattan,Michael Szenberg Pdf

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for some a “dismal science” following Thomas Carlyle’s characterization of Malthus’ demographic model, it has increasingly become the “queen of the social sciences” for more practitioners. The book fills a gap in the literature by describing the American contributors as precursors and genuinely exceptional economists. We present their works within the state of the nation in which they advance their discipline. One is treated to both qualitative and quantitative theories in the opening chapter. Budding theories that became established theories of Economics and Finance are investigated in Chapters II and III. When President John Adams was confronted with M. Turgot’s criticisms of the American government, he resorted to a historic survey of types of government from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages. Similarly, we have included a final chapter, Chapter IV, to present the argument for American Exceptionalism in the domain of Political Economy and Economic Law over the ages.

Author : John Neville Keynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081876187

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The Scope and Method of Political Economy by John Neville Keynes Pdf

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735224728

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Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and in the nation writ large, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond. But late in life, something remarkable happened: these two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled, over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, "At least Jefferson still lives." He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well. Arguably no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America's collective story.

Author : University of California (1868-1952)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UCSF:31378008248679

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Register of the University of California by University of California (1868-1952) Pdf

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415074878

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Thorstein Veblen by John Cunningham Wood Pdf

138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influencial economist. Volume 1 deals with his life and perspectives, volume 2 with "political economy" and volume 3 on "Specialized topics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372162

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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 88, 1944) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc R. Tool
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585296043

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Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy by Marc R. Tool Pdf

The volume appraises, refines, and extends the institutionalist's evolutionary theory of political economy in six different areas of inquiry: (a) the provision of a fresh and comparative overview of institutional economics in general; (b) the presentation and refinement of pragmatic methods of inquiry; (c) the exploration of extensions and clarifications of instrumental value theory; (d) the distillation of an emergent institutionalist theory of labor markets; (e) the explication of a culture-based theory of economic development; and (f) the formulation of an analytical design that provides direction for institutional policy making. Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy appears at an especially opportune time, when there is widespread and accumulating analytical dissatisfaction with received economic doctrine. The traditional neoclassical and Marxist views of how to explain, order, and operate a political economy are now in question throughout the world. Appeals are being made for more relevant and pragmatic, less doctrinaire and dogmatic, approaches to economic inquiry and problem solving. This volume provides fresh theoretical underpinnings for such problem solving efforts.

Author : John E. Roemer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674879201

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Theories of Distributive Justice by John E. Roemer Pdf

John Roemer has written a unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical perspective and philosophical theories of distributive justice from an economic one.

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400987364

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Institutional Economics by John Adams Pdf

Allan Garfield Gruchy, now Professor Emeritus at The University of Maryland, retired in 1977 from full-time duty. That he continued to teach his graduate seminar in institutional economics and simply accelerated work on a major study of planning in world economies is only more evidence of the energy and concern he has brought to his teaching and writing through out his career. His undergraduate classes in comparative economic systems and modern economic thought, and his two graduate courses on institu tionalism, were always among the most popular in the department. They were firmly grounded in a perspective that opened the minds of hundreds of students to new avenues of thought and to different modes of economic organization. Returning students who report they quickly forgot the arid intricacies of intermediate theory courses nonetheless recall Allan's verbal thrusts at orthodox positions and at the shortcomings of American eco nomic institutions. Allan worked for many years with Dudley Dillard to construct Maryland's present department and served ably as acting chairman in 1976-77 after Dudley relinquished the chairmanship. His impatient wit enlivened faculty meetings and rendered them expeditious in the extreme, and it was welcomed by all except those with a penchant for pontification. Allan is best known among economists for his elucidation of institutional and neoinstitutional thought and for his comparative analysis of planning v vi PREFACE and growth.