[Polyarchy] [Polyarchy : documents]
Sources : new additions (2004)
[1849] Frédéric Bastiat, Maudit Argent
- Comment: Sur la distinction entre argent et richesse. A lire.
http://bastiat.org/fr/maudit_argent.html
[1856] Alexis de Tocqueville, L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution, Flammarion, Paris, 1988
- Comment: Tocqueville montre la continuité de la centralisation et de la rapacité fiscale à la suite de l'installation au pouvoir du nouveau état.
[1905] William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. A series of very plain talks on very practical politics delivered by ex senator George Washington Plunkitt and recorded by William L. Riordon, Dutton & Co., New York, 1963
- Contents: Honest graft and dishonest graft - How to become a statesman - The curse of civil service reform - Reformers only mornin' glories - New York city is pie for the hayseeds - To hold your district: study human nature and act accordin' - On The shame of the cities - Ingratitude in politics - Reciprocity in patronage - Brooklynites natural-born hayseeds - Tammany leaders not bookworms - Dangers of the dress suit in politics - On municipal Ownership - Tammany the only lastin' democracy - Concerning gas in politics - Plunkitt's fondest dream - Tammany's patriotism - On the use of money in politics - The successful politician does not drink - Bosses preserve the nation - Concerning excise - A parting word on the future of the democratic party in America - Strenuous life of the Tammany district leader.
- Comment: A sincere declaration on the working of representative democracy, between honest graft and political patronage.
- See: http://www.panarchy.org/plunkitt/graft.1905.html
http://www.panarchy.org/plunkitt/patronage.1905.html[1952] A. J. P. Taylor, Economic Imperialism
- Comment: A lucid essay on the true nature and origin of imperialism..
http://www.panarchy.org/taylor/imperialism.1952.html
[1960] Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998, fourth expanded edition
- Contents: 1. Politics in a new style. 2. Self-determination. 3. State and individual. 4. The excellence of diversity. 5. National self-determination. 6. Nationalism and politics I. 7. Nationalism and politics II. Afterword. Further reading.
- Comment: The classic text on nationalism.
- For quotations see : Education/Learning - Left/Right - Nation/Nationalism.
[1964] Tristram Coffin, The Armed Society. Militarism in modern America, Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland
- Contents: 1. The American Mission. 2. The Bloody Beast. 3. The Pioneer Fear. 4. The War Hawks. 5. The Military Mystique. 6. The Military Welfare State. 7. The Peacetime Soldier. 8. King Mac. 9. Military True Believers. 10. The Demonologist. 11. The Fighters and Statesmen. 12. The Mirror Army. 13. The Military-Industrial Complex. 14. The Senator-General. 15. The General and the Scientist. 16. The Military Circuit Riders. 17. The General and News. 18. Nuclear Strategy. 19. The Tactical Game. Epilogue.
- Comment: An insightful book on the mentality and practices of the American military complex.
- For quotations see : Alienation - War.
[1967] Charles I. Schottland editor, The Welfare State, Harper & Row Publishers, New York
- Contents: I. Introduction by Charles I. Schottland. II. Historical Development of the Welfare State Idea. 1. The State, by William Temple, Archbishop of York. 2. The Welfare State in historical perspective, by Asa Briggs. 3. The General-Welfare State in the Twentieth Century, by Sidney Fine. 4. The Unfinished Business of the Welfare State, by Desmond G. Neill. 5. Government as Social Servant, by Henry Abraham. 6. Appraisal of the Welfare State, by Henry Steele Commager. III. The Welfare State as a Concept. 7. The Spreading State of Welfare, by Fortune Magazine. 8. The Welfare State: Images and Realities, by Richard M. Titmuss. 9. Planning in the Welfare State, by Gunnar Myrdal. 10. The Rule of Law and the Welfare State, by Harry W. Jones. 11. "The Welfare State", by Arthur Schlesinger jr. 12. The True Welfare: America's Continuing Quest, by August Heckacher. 13. Reflections on the Welfare State, by Wallace Petersen. 14. Theory and Practice of the Welfare State, by N. A. Smith. IV. The Great Debate. 15. The Welfare State - The Case for and Against, by Asher Achinstein. 16. "Welfare State" - A Debate that Isn't, by Sidney Hook. 17. Reflections on the Welfare State, by Wilhelm Röpke. 18. The Welfare State - a State of General Welfare, by Hubert H. Humphrey. 19. Liberalism, Paternalism, Security and the Welfare State, by Donald Richberg. 20. Our Welfare State and Our Political Parties: Squaring Political Programs with Realities, by Norman Thomas. 21. The Rise of the Service State and Its Consequences, by Roscoe Pound. 22. The Welfare State: Postscript and Prelude, by Charles Frankel. 23. The State and the Individual, by Gunnar Myrdal. 24. The Welfare State and the State of Human Welfare, by Committee on Economic Policy, USA Chamber of Commerce. 25. "The Welfare State" - Fiction and the Facts, by I. Nazarenko. 26. The Welfare State: the Socialized Sector, by Adolf A. Berle. 27. The Decline of Socialism and the Rise of the Welfare State, by Friedrich August Von Hayek. 28. Whose Welfare State?, by Brian Abel-Smith. 29. The United States as a "Welfare State", by Jacob Viner. 30. The British Debate the Welfare State, by Timothy Raison. Selected Bibliography.
- Comment: A multi-faceted anthology on the origin of the Welfare State and on the debate surrounding the idea and its implementation.
[1976] A. F. Hayek, Denationalization of Money, Hobart Paper Special, The Institute of Econmic Affairs, London, Third Edition 1990
- Comment: A brilliant essay with important unconventional ideas on money.
[1983] Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, Revised Edition 1991, London 2002
- Contents: Preface to the Second Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Cultural Roots. 3. The Origins of National Consciousness. 4. Creole Pioneers. 5. Old Languages, New Models. 6. Official Nationalism and Imperialism. 7. The Last Wave. 8. Patriotism and Racism. 9. The Angel of History. 10. Census, Map, Museum. 11. Memory and Forgetting. Bibliography.
- Comment: Some very interesting ideas and hypotheses on the birth of nationalism. Unfortunately, it contains also some old -style terms and concepts.
[1992] John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down. The hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling, New Society Publishers, Canada, 2002
- Contents: 1. The seven-lessons schoolteacher. 2. The psychopathic school. 3. The green monongahela. 4. We need less school, not more. 5. The congregational principle. Afterword: Ten years later.
- Comment: A classic text on the disasters produced by the school dominated by the state.
[2000] Hernando De Soto, The Mystery of Capital. Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Transworld Publishers, London, 2001
- Contents: 1. The five mysteries of capital. 2. The mystery of missing information. 3. The mystery of capital. 4. The mystery of political awerness. 5. The missing lesson of US history. 6. The mystery of legal failure: why property law does not work outside the West. 7. By way of conclusion.
- Comment: A stimulating text that clears the way out of conventional views on poverty and underdevelopment.
[2003] E. G. West, Government Failure: E. G. West on Education, The Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 2003
- Comment: A collection of essays on state schooling and its dismal record.
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