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On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

By Bertrand de Jouvenel

Book information

Publisher
Beacon Press Boston
Year
1949
ISBN
0865971137, 9780865971134
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
545 kB (558319 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
466\0
Time added
2019-12-31 00:35:36

Description

Documenting the process by which government and controlling majorities have grown increasingly powerful and tyrannical, Bertrand de Jouvenel demonstrates how democracies have failed to limit the powers of government. Jouvenel traces this development to the days of royal absolutism, which established large administrative bureaucracies and thus laid the foundation of the modern omnipotent state. Bertrand de Jouvenelwas an author and teacher, first publishingOn Powerin 1945.

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