Book Description
In writing these celebrated essays Robert Brenner had an electric impact on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781844673186
In writing these celebrated essays Robert Brenner had an electric impact on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Socialism
ISBN :
Author : Walker F. Todd
Publisher : Amer Inst for Economic Research
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780913610695
Author : Henry George
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Socialism
ISBN :
Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : British Academy
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : History
ISBN :
Eight prominent historians and social scientists give their perspectives on the fate of Marxist approaches to history and the direction of the discipline in coming decades. The volume offers rigorous and approachable analysis from several political and intellectual positions and will be an important contribution to current historical debates.
Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 022641955X
Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."
Author : Colin Clark
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Capitalism
ISBN :
Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307427358
"A superb book about a topic that should be front and center in the American political debate" (National Review), from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution An exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic institutions to evolve and thrive in the Western world. Beginning with Greece and Rome, where the concept of private property as we understand it first developed, Richard Pipes then shows us how, in the late medieval period, the idea matured with the expansion of commerce and the rise of cities. He contrasts England, a country where property rights and parliamentary government advanced hand-in-hand, with Russia, where restrictions on ownership have for centuries consistently abetted authoritarian regimes; finally he provides reflections on current and future trends in the United States. Property and Freedom is a brilliant contribution to political thought and an essential work on a subject of vital importance.
Author : Aaron Perzanowski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0262535246
An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation—as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property. Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But, most important, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.