George Bragues: 2 books
Money, Markets, and Democracy
Politically Skewed Financial Markets and How to Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade them,...
Cooperation and Excellence
A Premodern Case for Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book offers a distinctive moral defense of capitalism. Unlike most such defenses, this book avoids the summoning of concepts and ideas drawn from the modern philosophical tradition that arose out of the 17th–18th century Enlightenment. It rejects the idea of supporting capitalism on the grounds...