On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

by Bertrand De Jouvenel

Book Overview

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 Jouvenel was an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865971137
• ISBN13: 9780865971134
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5