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Jerry Z. Muller
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life
Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual…
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Contrary to the popular opinion of Smith as champion of greed, this book claims that Smith maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government…
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Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, this title examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the…
Traces the history of the capitalist idea in western thought, from its origins in the ancient classical world and medieval Christianity to its flowering from 1700 to the present day…
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Offers a historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. This volume locates the origins of modern �’ conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishes between…
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government-and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path…
This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and…
