The Economic Basis of Politics

ISBN-13: 9780765809322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 118 str.

Charles Austin Beard; Professor Clyde W. Barrow

Opis

Economic interpretations of history are irrevocably identifi ed with the name of Charles A. Beard. This is mainly due to his early book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Yet, in Beard's later work, The Economic Basis of Politics (1922), he articulates the main principles of his method and argues for its applicability to the understanding of current events. In this brief survey of Western political philosophy and contemporary constitutional arrangements, Beard concludes that it is well established doctrine that "there is a vital relation between the forms of a state and the distribution of property, revolutions in the state being usually the results of contests over property."

Spis treści

1: The Doctrines of the Philosophers; 2: Economic Groups and the Structure of the State; 3: The Doctrine of Political Equality; 4: The Contradiction and the Outcome; 5: Economics and Politics in Our Revolutionary Age

O autorze

Charles Beard