Vorwort -- Karl Marx’ Religionskritik: Religion als Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur und Opium der Volks -- War Karl Marx ein politischer Denker? -- Hat nur Marx einen Bart oder auch seine Philosophie? -- Karl Marx’/Friedrich Engels’ Kritik am dialogischen Kommunismus Ludwig...

This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first place. In...

Corporation as common constitution -- The political economy of Sir Thomas Smith -- Richard Hooker's corporate Christians -- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English corporation -- Dekker and Company -- Shakespeare's thing of nothing -- Francis Bacon's...

Adam Smith (1721-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is of an uninformed nature; that he is an apologist for capitalism a forceful promoter of self-interest, a...

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...