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“…The Creighton Century is an invaluable guide to students of historiography, and a chance to revisit some of the great lectures from the series, including those by R. H. Tawney, Lucy Sutherland, Donald Coleman, Eric Hobsbawm and Keith Thomas, published here with commentaries by Virginia Berridge, Justin Champion, Julian Hoppit and Jinty Nelson among others. …”

“…Una crisis que refleja el fracaso de una forma de globalización guiada por el espíritu de un capitalismo carente de toda legitimación política y moral y que, en mi opinión, no reconocerían como tal los clásicos comentadores del capitalismo de los orígenes, como M. Weber o R. H. Tawney. En efecto, la crisis del sistema finaciero internacional, que ha estado en la génesis de la actual crisis, es una muestra de la corrupción sistémica que acaba mostrando "las vergüenzas del capitalismo" y su desbocada irracionalidad…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…57 : [Social science I : selections from Twentieth-Century economics] / Thorstein Veblen, R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes. - XIII, 489 p.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Organismic Theory: The State as Organism -- Juridical Theory: The State as Law Giver -- Idealistic Theory -- Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Roles and Functions of the State and the Nature of State Power -- Introduction -- Liberal and Neo-Liberal Theories -- Negative Liberalism and Theory of Laissez-Faire State -- Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Theorists of the Possessive Individual -- Theorists of the Laissez-Faire State -- Physiocrats -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo -- Jeremy Bentham -- Herbert Spencer -- The Mills -- Positive Liberalism and Theory of the Welfare State -- John Stuart Mill -- Utilitarianism revised -- Liberty: Positive and negative -- Positive state -- Thomas Hill Green -- Freedom as positive power -- Theory of rights: Ideal and natural -- Role of the state: Idealist and positive -- Leonard T. Hobhouse -- R.H. Tawney -- Harold Joseph Laski -- Positive liberty -- Social welfare state -- R.M. …”