Maggor, Noam
Summary: Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 MAGChomsky, Noam.
Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHOSmith, Adam
Summary: Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010