World History

We, this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the co

It is a favorite conceit of modern, 20th-century liberals that skepticism, the attitude that nothing can really be known as the truth, is the best

He could not see also that these producers did not create such needs, but instead were fulfilling them and thereby removing the want and pain of their customers and adding to their happiness and standard of living. If he had gone that far, he would have realized the nonsense of his dog-eat-dog, or what would now be called his "zero-sum-game" view of the marketplace.

China in the formative centuries developed protoanarchistic ideas. The total, unsystematic application of those ideas created a system as rigid, as formalistic and tyrannical, as any we have today.

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

The overall view of Botero is that the morality and justification for actions of the prince are diametrically opposed to the principles that must g

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

"There is of course no point whatever in trying to formulate independent 'laws' for the behavior of two interdependent quantities.

Machiavelli was reviled throughout Europe during the 16th century and on into the next two centuries.

For while the humanists would hear of no institutional check on state rule, one critical stumbling block still remained: Christian virtue. What was needed, then, to complete the development of absolutist theory, was a theoretician to fearlessly break the ethical chains that still bound the ruler to the claims of moral principle. That man was the Florentine bureaucrat Niccolò Machiavelli.