Bøker av David Reisman

This book examines the economic, social and political thought of two highly influential cross-disciplinary contributors to the debate in the United Kingdom about welfare economics, social welfare, nationalisation and public policy. Active between the 1880s and the 1930s, their many books, papers, lectures and speeches shaped the discourse on heterodox economics, social democracy and the managed economy. The Webbs sat on Royal Commissions, permeated local and central government, and were instrumental in the creation of the London School of Economics. This book discusses and assesses their contribution to the broad topics of inequality, poverty, unemployment, freedom, capitalism, socialism, constitutional reform, social evolution and the historical school. Issues such as these remain at the forefront of contemporary discussions not just in Britain but throughout the world.

In 2013 an American Jewish family innocently visited Muslim Holy Sites in Jerusalem and accidentally fell into a long-standing local conflict. This is a story of how the Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque responded to an upset boy who could not understand why he could not see the Dome of the Rock. The words in this book are from 10-year old David. It is his view of a small, true story about confusion, conviction, hospitality, and humanity.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

Meade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 (jointly with Bertil Ohlin) for his contribution to international economics, but could just as easily have been awarded this for his contribution to the economics and politics of the managed economy.

In "Being and Nothingness", Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology. This work describes Sartre's account of the transition from one's original apprehension of another consciousness to the perception of other persons.

Marshall's theories of economic and social advancement are explained with reference to the scientific and philosophical movements which influenced them: utilitarianism, evolutionism, mathematical marginalism and ethical idealism.

A survey of the political economy of James Buchanan seeking to explain his theories in detail and evaluate them in depth, covering topics such as the constitution and its failure, democracy, operational rules for the constitution and economics.