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In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light.

Unlike Milton Friedman and other free-market scholars, who consider property a key to efficient markets, Purdy draws upon Smith's theories to argue that the virtues of wealth are social rather than economic. In Purdy's view, ownership does much more than shield one from government...

»Ein kurzes Buch von enormer Kraft, geschrieben von einem außergewöhnlichen Autor und Denker.« Robert Macfarlane

»Die Welt und wir ist bewegend, erschütternd und inspirierend.« Elizabeth Kolbert

Die USA sind ein gespaltenes Land: Auf der einen Seite werden Forderungen nach einem Green New Deal, nach einer allgemeinen Krankenversicherung und besserer öffentlicher Bildung immer lauter. Auf der anderen Seite sorgt Präsident Trump mit seinem Versprechen, den »Krieg gegen die Kohle« zu beenden, mit Steuererleichterungen für...

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A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for...

In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience--free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions.

Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important...