The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting ...
Continue Reading → Hugo Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Along with the ...
Continue Reading → The Tableau économique or Economic Table is an economic model first described by French economist François Quesnay in 1758, which laid the foundation of ...
Continue Reading →The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines is a book that economist William ...
Continue Reading →William Stanley Jevons is regarded by many as bringing mathematical methods to the study of economics. The Theory of Political Economy brought together maths and ...
Continue Reading → Henry Hazlitt strongly recommended this book for all students of the social sciences. It had a formative influence on his life. In fact, it ...
Continue Reading →A Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of ...
Continue Reading →On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (19 April 1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. The book concludes that land rent ...
Continue Reading →The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources. ...
Continue Reading →Objects are all around us – and images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the ...
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