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How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politics Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the ...

A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in America The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the ...

Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led ...

What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope , Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources ...

A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciences From the family to the workplace to the ...

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source ...

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own ...