This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This volume covers the period starting from his childhood up to his early...

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This second volume follows Pareto from his time teaching at Lausanne to the...

1. Introduction -- Part I: Shortcomings of Current Theories of EI -- 2. Federalism, Sovereignty and Modernity -- 3. The Obsolescence of Neo-Functionalism -- 4. Liberalism: Do Economics Drive EI? -- 5: How to Solve the Problems of EI-Theory? -- Part II: European Republicanism -- 6. Approaches to...

Introduction -- Part I - The Dual Argument (1920 - 1947): The Socialist Calculation Debates -- The Lippmann Colloquium -- The Economic Consequences -- Part II - The First Meeting (1947): An Army of Fighters for Freedom -- Using the State -- A New Europe -- The Second Week -- Conclusions: What Is...

1 -- Introduction -- 2. Tocqueville’s “New Political Science” as a Correction of The Federalist -- 3. “The Monetary Link": Tocqueville on the Second Bank of the US and Liberal Political Economy -- 4. Tocqueville on the Mixed Blessing of Liberal Learning: Higher Education as Subversive...

1. Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism; David Ellerman -- 2. Democracy, Liberalism, and Discretion: The Political Puzzle of the Administrative State; Stephen Turner -- 3. Ordoliberalism as the Operationalisation of Liberal Politics; Mikayla Novak -- 4. Liberalism, Through a Glass Darkly;...

Chapter 1. Four Concepts of Rules: A Theory of Rule Egalitarianism -- Chapter 2. Can I Have Four Strikes? On Pareto Superiority and Social Justice -- Chapter 3. No Malibu Surfer Left Behind: Three Tales About Coercion -- Chapter 4. The Fictitious Liberal Divide: Economic Rights Are Not Basic --...

The classical ideal of the leader -- Plato -- Thomas Aquinas -- Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- James Harrington -- The implicit theories of the classical republicans -- Toward a new implicit theory and a new...

The Handbook of Social Capital offers an important contribution to the study of bonding and bridging social capital networks, balancing the'troika' of sociology, political science and economics. Eminent contributors, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, explore the different scientific...

Beyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new...