A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
10 best books like A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (Wilhelm Röpke): The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance), God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, Ideas Have Consequences, The Works of G.K. Chesterton
| Author | Robert A. Nisbet |
| ISBN | 1558150587 |
"The Quest for Community" stands among the most important social critiques ever written. The first book by the man the New York Times calls "one of our most original social thinkers", Robert Nisbet's study explores how individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources of human community...
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | E. Christian Kopff |
| ISBN | 1882926250 |
It's tremendously learned, and mostly well-written, and I want to agree with his message because I think a classics-heavy education is a great idea, but I disagree strongly with almost everything he says. His grand scheme seems to be teaching children Latin rather than social studies, and completely...
| Author | Richard Gamble |
| ISBN | 1933859253 |
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
| Author | Anthony O'Hear |
| ISBN | 1933859784 |
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute,...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
| Author | David A. Hollinger |
| ISBN | 0195183401 |
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,...
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
| Author | Stephen Toulmin |
| ISBN | 0226808386 |
In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision...
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 0226876802 |
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
The Works of G.K. Chesterton
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 1853264288 |
Depending on which of the 36 books I was reading, some of them I found to be very cerebral, and encouraging of my religious faith, even though I am not a Catholic. Others of the works were stories- pleasure reading, and I enjoyed them as well.
The biographies were very difficult for me as I had trouble...
| Author | Joseph de Maistre |
| ISBN | 0521466288 |
A work of powerful style, but like most 19th century conservatism, mainly rethorical. It is no wonder that they lost the cultural battle. It may be my just autism, but systems are the best thing in philosophy and are necessary if one wants to be the backbone of a consistent movement.
That said, de Maistre...
| Author | Russell Kirk |
| ISBN | 1882926994 |
Typically, I am a pretty great reader. I finish books quickly. But if book-reading-records were “broken”, this book did it for me.
It took me three weeks to read this whole book. Now, I have to add that that is at a ploddy speed. I didn't read for hours each day, and sometimes I didn't read at...
| Author | Herbert Spencer |
| ISBN | 0913966983 |
Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation—the statist principle—for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation. His theme is that “there is in society . . . that beautiful self-adjusting...
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0691000522 |
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous...
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
| Author | James Davison Hunter |
| ISBN | 0465031773 |
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light...
Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 1933859059 |
A Third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent economic and social considerations. Humanity was lurching blindly in the wrong direction, argued Schumacher....
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
| Author | Akhil Reed Amar |
| ISBN | 0300082770 |
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional...
Originally published in "Cornhill" magazine, "Unto This Last" is a series of four essays on the politics of economics. Considered by Ruskin as one of his most important works, "Unto This Last" argues that economics, art and science must have a foundation in morality. Ruskin, who cannot be strictly...
| Author | Rod Dreher |
| ISBN | 1400050642 |
Well, I did it. I finally read Crunchy Cons. I'd been delaying this for a while, not because I don't appreciate Dreher's work (I am a faithful follower of his blog) but because I felt that I knew the book already. Among the people I run with, Crunchy Cons has approached the level of semi-holy writ. I resisted...
| Author | Jay W. Richards |
| ISBN | 0061375616 |
In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting...
| Author | Hilaire Belloc |
| ISBN | 0913966320 |
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) was one of the most respected men of his day for his learning, insight, wit, and brilliant literary style. Author of over a hundred books and articles, Belloc was a journalist, polemicist, social and political analyst, literary critic, poet, and novelist.
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The Meaning of Conservatism
First published in 1980, The Meaning of Conservatism is now recognized as a major contribution to political thought, and the liveliest and most provocative modern statement of the traditional "paleo-conservative" position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives,...
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0913966673 |
Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed 'laws' of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social...
