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Paul McCracken's influence on how we think about economic policy has reached from the academy, to the popular press, to the highest reaches of government. He is the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1948. Approximate running time: 61 minutes.

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Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics, Milton Friedman has long been recognised as one our most important economic thinkers. A Senior Research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, he is also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976.

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M Stanton Evans is the former editor of The Indianapolis News and founding director of the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. The Journalism Center is dedicated to teaching young journalists not only the technical skills of their trade, but a deep understanding of the issues they will be covering. Over 1300 young journalists have trained at the centre, and have gone on to jobs at all the major news channels, magazines, and newspapers across the country. Evans has been a columnist for the Los Angles Times Syndicate and a commentator for CBS radio-TV, NPR, and the Voice of America. He is the author of seven books. Approximate running time: 66 minutes.

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Ronald Coase received the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. His articles 'The Probelem of Social Cost' and 'The Nature of the Firm' are among the most important and most often cited works in the whole of economic literature.

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Compiled and edited by Lance Banning (Professor of History, University of Kentucky), Liberty And Order: The First American Party Struggle presents representatives of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist factions expounding in their own words their divergent philosophies, visions, and concerns -- differences that would give birth to a system of American political parties which was originally unexpected and unforeseen by the Founding Fathers and the United States Constitution. Liberty And Order provides significant insights and backgrounding into such historical issues as the development of the Bill of Rights; the impact of the French Revolution and the War of 1812 upon American civil liberties and foreign policy; and the primal foundations of what we recognize today as the American political economy. Liberty And Order is a seminal contribution to school and community library American Political History collections.

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This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the project. This influential classical work offered a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things. In their account of the life of the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutcheson and Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of an orderly universe governed by a benevolent God. They contrasted the serenity recommended and practiced by Marcus Aurelius with the divisive sectarianism then exhibited by their fellow Presbyterians in Scotland and elsewhere. They urged their readers and fellow citizens to set aside their narrow prejudices.

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In this text, the author argues that organisations -- or governments -- based solely on the methods of science threaten to foreclose a full human knowledge of the mysteries of existence and therefore pose a direct threat not only to academic freedom but also to social and political liberty.

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A companion volume to the three-book set "Select Works of Edmund Burke", this text includes seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland and on enslavement.

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