The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: David Stasavage
3.85
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation." —Steven Levitsky, N…
Want to Read $ 16.74"History suggests that even in a full democracy, the risk that the 5,000 will dominate is much greater than the threat that the 5,000,000 will expropriate the 5,000."-David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
"History suggests that even in a full democracy, the risk that the 5,000 will dominate is much greater than the threat that the 5,000,000 will expropriate the 5,000."-David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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1. On Democracy
By: Robert A. Dahl
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The last half of the 20th century has been an era of democratic triumph. The main anti-democratic r… read more
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2. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
4.16
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revis… read more
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"So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans."-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
"The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes."-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
"I am on the brink of death, while you will carry on living. The judgment of which is truly better rests only within the knowledge of God."-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
"We should not allow into our minds the conviction that argumentation has nothing sound about it; much rather we should believe that it is we who are not yet sound and that we must take courage and be…"-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
By: Albert O. Hirschman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline ra… read more
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4. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
By: Ara Norenzayan
3.32
Format: 344 pages, ebook
How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous… read more
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5. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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6. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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8. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly tho… read more
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9. The Mismeasure of Man
By: Stephen Jay Gould
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. How smart are you? If that question do… read more
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10. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
11. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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12. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
By: Barrington Moore Jr. , James C. Scott , Edward Friedman
4.36
Format: 303 pages,
A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn … read more
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13. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
By: Bryan Caplan
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Hardcover
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobby… read more
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14. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By: Robert Nozick
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held politi… read more
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15. Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
By: Ian Morris
3.84
Format: 95 pages, ebook
A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the ast… read more
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16. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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17. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
18. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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19. 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
By: Garett Jones
3.61
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were… read more
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20. Birds of California
By: Katie Cotugno
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Former child actor Fiona St. James dropped out of the spotlight after a spectacularly public crash … read more
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21. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: David Stasavage
3.85
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
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"History suggests that even in a full democracy, the risk that the 5,000 will dominate is much greater than the threat that the 5,000,000 will expropriate the 5,000."-David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
