The key to understand how society comes to be, works without central direction, and develops into a thriving civilization can be understood through the least understood idea in economics: the division of labor through comparative advantage. It is central to not only Mises's conception of the social order but also to the entire classical liberal worldview.
Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the recent "revolutions" in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. This series of essays offers a novel and incisive view on some of the pressing questions that now face architects, planners and politicians alike in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider how best to formulate the new architecture for Europe.
The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts and Architecture - A Cultural History of Central Europe 750 - 900
This book presents an historical overview of the Frankish realms in Central Europe during the Carolingian period. Against this background Part II of the book examines the cultural inventory deposited by the scribal culture in Central Europe as represented by manuscripts, crystals, ivories and gem encrusted liturgical art. Part III deals with such examples of Carolingian wall painting and architecture as are still evident in Central Europe. Though some examples are derivative, many are original. Black and white illustrations generally serve the representation of architecture.
Family Business - Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France
In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states -- phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world. For household members, neighbors, and authorities, the family business of the management of a broad range of tangible and intangible resources -- law, borrowing, violence, and marital status among them -- was central to political stability, economic productivity and cultural morality.
Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland - The Origins of a Central Court
Drawing on archival research into jurisdictional change, litigation and dispute settlement, this book provides a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland, arguing for the overriding significance of the foundation of the College of Justice in 1532.
