Conventional wisdom warns that unaccountable political and business agents can enrich a few at the expense of many. But logically extending this wisdom implies that associated principals – voters, con
A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on political economy.
Until about two hundred years ago, almost everyone faced the prospect of a life that was poor, nasty, brutish, and short, with few if any prospects for betterment. For example, in today’s money, annua
