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PHYSICS AND POLITICS IBD

BOOK JUNGLE
11 / 2009
9781438529592
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Sinopsis

Walter Bagehot was a 19th century British businessman, essayist, and journalist. He studied law but chose to enter his father?s shipping and banking business. He worked as editor-in-chief of The Economist. In Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of 'natural selection' and 'inheritance' to political society (1872) he coined the still-current expression, 'the cake of custom,' to describe the tension between social institutions and innovations. The Table of Contents includes The Preliminary Age, The use of conflict, Nation-making, The age of discussion, and Verifiable progress politically considered.

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