On power : the natural history of its growth
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On power : the natural history of its growth
Liberty Fund, 1993
Liberty Press ed
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Du pouvoir : histoire naturelle de sa croissance
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Originally published: 1948
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. This development Jouvenel traces all the way back to the days of royal absolutism, which established large administrative bureaucracies and thus laid the foundation of the modern omnipotent state.
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