Lehrman American Studies Center

Articles

• Students Are Leaving the Politics Out of Economics by Louis Uchitelle

• Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

  The Communist Manifesto is the commonly-known name of "The Manifesto of the Communist Party" written by Karl Marx and Friederich Engles. It was published on February 21, 1848 and was commission by the Commmunist League. The Manifesto calls for a…

Books

• Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle, translated by Hippocrates G. Apostle and Lloyd P. Gerson

• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

• Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

• After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre

• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman

• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff by Arthur M. Okun

• The essential civil society reader: classic essays in the American civil society debate by Don E. Eberly

• Justice and Economic Distribution

• The Essential Communitarian Reader by Amitai Etzioni

• Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott

• The constitution of liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek

  In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle…

• The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

• Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers by Javier Santiso

  Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ideologies…

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

• I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society by Robert B. Reich

  From the former Secretary of Labor, a plan to get the economy to work for everyone. With his characteristic humor, humanity, and candor, one of the nation"s most distinguished public leaders and thinkers delivers a fresh vision of politics by…

• Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy by Henry George

  To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state, and would strive for its attainment. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty Why do we…

Transcripts or Manuscripts

• Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

Videos

• The Commanding Heights: The Battle For The World Economy ( PBS )

  (from Amazon.com): The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political…

Websites

• Distributive Justice by Christi Favor and Julian Lamont

Maps

• Map of Distribution of Economic Freedom ( The Heritage Foundation )

• Map of Freedom 2007 ( Freedom House )

  The year 2006 saw little change in the global state of freedom in the world and the emergence of a series of worrisome trends that present potentially serious threats to the expansion of freedom in the future, Freedom House said…

Images

• World War II Domestic Price Controls ( Franlkin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum )