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Economics and the Good Life

Essays on Political Economy

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel,Dennis Hale,Marc Landy

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Economics and the Good Life

Essays on Political Economy

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel,Dennis Hale,Marc Landy

Written between 1952 and 1980, the essays range from a discussion of technology to reflections on such fundamental economic concepts as "amenity" and "welfare." They include the deeply theoretical as well as the practical and the concrete. All are informed by de Jouvenel's insistence that a science which seeks to understand the production and distribution of "goods" must be concerned in the first place with the good itself. Economics and the Good Life is a companion volume to The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel. Like the earlier volume, this collection is accompanied by an editors' introduction that places the essays in the wider context of de Jouvenel's work.

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308

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076580428X

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9780765804280

Sovereignty

An Inquiry Into the Political Good

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

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Sovereignty

An Inquiry Into the Political Good

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

Bertrand de Jouvenel examines the relationship between the distribution of power and the creation of an ethical society.

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337

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Cambridge University Press

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1107600170

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The Art of Conjecture

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

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The Art of Conjecture

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

Commissions of experts regularly meet to reply to questions such as: What will be the population of the country, or even of our planet, in ten, fifteen or twenty-five years? In what proportion will production have increased, what modifications will its composition and utilizations have undergone? The attraction of efforts to forecast the future continues. That is a fact. How does it proceed? That is a problem, one on which de Jouvenel focuses on in this book. The Art of Conjecture clearly explains what the "study of the future" can mean. De Jouvenel emphasizes the logical and political problems of forecasting and discusses methods in economics, sociology, and political science by which the future can be studied. More importantly, he discusses the fallacies to which the "study of the future" is peculiarly likely to give rise. The author argues that it is natural and necessary for the population to have visions of the future. Without this, he states, we would only be able to set one opinion of the future against another. If the origins and meanings of these predictions remained obscure, only the event could decide among the opinions. If any man can be said to have created the serious "study of the future" in our time, it is Bertrand de Jouvenel. Futuribles, a periodical he created, continues to represent a major turning point in contemporary social science. Jouvenel aimed to show how "the art of conjecture" could inform prudential judgment and allow citizens and statesmen to detect troubles before they arise.

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325

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Routledge

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1351305670

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9781351305679

The Ethics of Redistribution

By: Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel,Bertrand de Jouvenel

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The Ethics of Redistribution

By: Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel,Bertrand de Jouvenel

The Ethics of Redistribution was originally delivered as a Boutwood Lecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1949. The Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel was then an already internationally regarded philosopher whose learned style was a calculated blend of moral. historical and political considerations. In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, he presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521125863

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Economics and the Good Life

Essays on Political Economy

By: Bertrand De Jouvenel

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Essays on Political Economy

By: Bertrand De Jouvenel

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1412822149

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Capitalism and the Historians

By: T. S. Ashton,Louis Hacker,W. H. Hutt,Bertrand de Jouvenel

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Capitalism and the Historians

By: T. S. Ashton,Louis Hacker,W. H. Hutt,Bertrand de Jouvenel

Essays by economic historians making the case that early factory workers benefited from the Industrial Revolution, despite its hardships and disruptions. The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under capitalism the workers, despite long hours and other hardships of factory life, were better off financially, had more opportunities, and led a better life than had been the case before the Industrial Revolution. Edited and with an introduction by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of The Road to Serfdom, this is “a book that will disturb the sleep of a good many scholars” (Max Eastman).

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151

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University of Chicago Press

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0226321134

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9780226321134

Art of the Defeat

France 1940-1944

By: Laurence Bertrand Dorléac

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Art of the Defeat

France 1940-1944

By: Laurence Bertrand Dorléac

Art of the Defeat offers an unflinching look at the pivotal role art played in France during the German occupation. It begins with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes and moves across the dark years - analyzing the official junket by French artists to Germany, the exhibition of Arno Breker's colossi in Paris, the looting of the state museums and Jewish collections, the glorification of Philippe P?tain and a pure national identity, the demonization of modernists and foreigners, and the range of responses by artists and artisans. The sum is a pioneering expos? of the deployment of art and ideology to hold the heart of darkness at bay"--Page 4 of cover.

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Getty Publications

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0892368918

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9780892368914

The Ethics of Redistribution

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

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The Ethics of Redistribution

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

After reading this insightful and charming classic, no one can believe that there are any arguments left for the redistributionist. De Jouvenel devastates every claim for either logic or morality in their position. . . --Henry G. Manne, Dean, School of Law, George Mason University In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional efforts sap incentives and are economically destructive. Rather, he stresses the commonly disregarded ethical arguments showing that redistribution is ethically indefensible for, and practically unworkable in, a complex society. A new introduction relates Jouvenel's arguments to current discussions about the redistributionist state and draws out many of the points of affinity with the works of Buchanan, Hayek, Rawls, and others. John Gray is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

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Liberty Fund

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0865970858

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On Power

The Natural History of Its Growth

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

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On Power

The Natural History of Its Growth

By: Bertrand de Jouvenel

Documenting the process by which government and controlling majorities have grown increasingly powerful and tyrannical, this book demonstrates how democracies have failed to limit the powers of government. Bernard de Jouvenel is the author of "The Ethics of Redistribution

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The Ethics of Redistribution

By: Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel,Bertrand de Jouvenel

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By: Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel,Bertrand de Jouvenel

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Book's by Bertrand De Jouvenel

Economics and the Good Life

Economics and the Good Life

Sovereignty

Sovereignty

The Art of Conjecture

The Art of Conjecture

The Ethics of Redistribution

The Ethics of Redistribution

Economics and the Good Life

Economics and the Good Life

Capitalism and the Historians

Capitalism and the Historians

Art of the Defeat

Art of the Defeat

The Ethics of Redistribution

The Ethics of Redistribution

On Power

On Power

The Ethics of Redistribution

The Ethics of Redistribution

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