December 11, 2009
David Ricardo (1772 – 1823) was an English political economist. He wrote his principles as a reaction to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, and after having been encouraged by James Mill and his son John. At several points he was fairly critical of Adam Smith. Ricardo has often been credited with systematizing economics, and [...]
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December 10, 2009
Emile Durkheim, one of the founding fathers of sociology, published The Division of Labor in Society in 1892. It was his doctoral dissertation, and it contains fundamental and far ranging statements about the nature of human society, it’s development, and what binds individuals to one another and to society. For Durkheim, the social division of [...]
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