The Prince — Machiavelli
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
Level IV
Vickers, Geoffrey, Freedom in a Rocking Boat, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1970
Schon, Donald A., Beyond the Stable State, Random House, N.Y., 1971
Level V
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Harvard UP, 1971
Rappoport, Roy A., Pigs for Ancestors, Yale U.P., 1967
Machiavelli, The Prince, Penguin Edition, 1970
DHCS Selections
Jacobs, Jane, Dark Age Ahead, Random House Canada, 2004
Jacobs, Jane, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics,Vintage, 1994
The often used pejorative term Machiavellian is something of a misnomer, as it describes one who deceives and manipulates others for gain, while the thrust of Machiavelli’s discourse is not whether the gain is personal or is not but rather that any actions taken are only important insofar as they affect the results.
“To seek “causes” of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
— Jane Jacobs
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