Riddle of the Modern World

Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Av A. Macfarlane, A. MacFarlane, Alan MacFarlane

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What conditions the chances of liberty, wealth and equality at the start of the third Christian millennium? Why did human civilizations develop so slowly for thousands of years, and then transform themselves during the last three hundred? This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest Gellner, weaves their lives and works together and through their own words shows how they approached the question of the nature of man, his past and his future.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-07-11
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor326
Upplaga2000
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333984505

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Acknowledgements References, Conventions and Measures The Riddle of the Modern World LIBERTY Baron de Montesquieu's Life and Vision Liberty and Despotism The Defence of Liberty WEALTH Adam Smith's Life and Vision Growth and Statis Of Wealth and Liberty From Predation to Production EQUALITY Alexis de Tocqueville's Life and Vision 'America' as a Thought Experiment Liberty, Wealth and Equality AN ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE? Ernest Gellner and the Conditions of the Exit The Riddle Resolved? Index

'No one who wishes to understand the great modern transformation of the industrialized world - the immense rise in human wealth even with an increase in population - can do so without studying the remarkable scholarship of the great British historian and anthropologist Alan Macfarlane. In The Riddle of the Modern World Alan Macfarlane looks at three thinkers - Montesquieu, Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville - who were alive when the great change took place to see if they, from direct observation, could explain what happened. - James Q. Wilson, Wall Street Journal