Exploring the Social and Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville

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This volume focuses on political economy, trying to bridge this divide.This book collects essays by emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines—political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, and social thought—to examine Tocqueville’s thoughts on political and social economy and its contemporary relevance.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-08
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMercatus Studies in Political and Social Economy
Antal sidor291
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030349363

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Peter J. Boettke is University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, USA. Boettke is the author of 13 books, including his most recent: Public Governance and the Classical Liberal Perspective and F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy.Adam Martin is Political Economy Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University, USA.

1.- Introduction.- 2. Tocqueville’s “New Political Science” as a Correction of The Federalist.- 3. “The Monetary Link": Tocqueville on the Second Bank of the US and Liberal Political Economy.- 4. Tocqueville on the Mixed Blessing of Liberal Learning: Higher Education as Subversive Antidote.- 5. Tocqueville's Philosophy of History: Its Implication for Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.- 6. A Tocquevillian Marketplace of Ideas? Spiritualism and Materialism in Tocqueville’s Liberalism.- 7. Democracy in the Age of Mass Incarceration.- 8. Tocquevillian Education for Self-Governance.- 9. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Citizenship: A Model of Collective Virtue.- 10. Open-Sourcing Civil Society.- 11. Collective Individualism and Revolution: Reading Tocqueville in Beijing.- 12. Deconstructing American Exceptionalism.