12 Best history books like The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo, F.W. Kolthammer

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The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

By: David Ricardo , F.W. Kolthammer

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark treatise of 1817 formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author …

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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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2. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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  • classics
"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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3. The Economic Consequences of the Peace

By: John Maynard Keynes

3.97

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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"In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. An Essay on the Principle of Population

By: Thomas Robert Malthus , Geoffrey Gilbert

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warnin… read more

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6. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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7. The Alchemy of Finance

By: George Soros , Paul A. Volcker

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

New chapter by Soros on the secrets to his success along with a new Preface and Introduction. New F… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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9. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

By: David Ricardo , F.W. Kolthammer

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark treatise of 1817 formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author … read more

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  • reference
  • economics
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10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

By: John Maynard Keynes

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that … read more

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11. Protagoras

By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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  • history
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12. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

By: Walter Bagehot

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. By the nineteenth century British economist and author of The Englis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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13. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

14. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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15. The Discourses

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more

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16. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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17. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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18. El Aleph

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.29

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Cuento "El Aleph", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949. read more

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"La segunda, que un famoso poeta es menos inventor que descubridor."

-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph

"Dilatar la vida de los hombres era dilatar su agonía y multiplicar el numero de sus muertes."

-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph

"Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la forma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias."

-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph

"I am not certain whether I ever believed in the City of the Immortals; I think the task of finding it was enough for me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph

19. Logic: A Very Short Introduction

By: Graham Priest

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do wi… read more

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20. Siyasetname

By: None , None

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Selcuklu sultanlari Alparslan ve Meliksah'in veziri olarak otuz yil boyunca devlet yonetiminde soz … read more

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21. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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John Maynard Keynes

3.97

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3.87

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Benjamin Graham , None , None

4.29

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Roger Lowenstein , Edwin Lefèvre

4.18

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Sebastian Mallaby

4.10

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