Moral and political philosophy

How moral judgement grows from sympathy and an imagined impartial spectator.

Rent, wages, profit and comparative advantage, reasoned from first assumptions.

Capitalism runs on creative destruction, and its success may lead it to socialism.

Books One to Three: division of labour, money, prices, wages, profit and capital.

Books Four and Five: the case against mercantilism, and the role of the state.

How cooperation and morality evolved from self-interest, via the prisoner's dilemma.

Why societies should put sustainable long-run growth almost above all else.

Elite theory: who actually rules, and why stated aims mislead

A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.

A novel of an architect who will build only by his own judgment, whatever it costs.

A reading of Xenophon's Hiero, where a tyrant and a poet weigh the uses of tyranny.

Ways to end humanity's conflicts with nature, with other people and within the self.

A critique of socialism: why morality and markets are not products of reason.

Why liberal democracy may be the end state of political change, and how people react.

The causes of instability in the global economy and the open society as a remedy.

A professor living with ALS sets out his philosophy of living and of letting go.

A philosopher defines bullshit by setting it apart from lying and humbug.

A short case against all lying, white lies included.

Portraits of people living lives of extreme ethical commitment to helping strangers.

Published in the UK as In Defence of Open Society.

Writings by the leader of India's independence movement on practising nonviolence.