On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

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 author and teacher, first publishing On Power in 1945.

Author: Bertrand De Jouvenel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 10/31/1993
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780865971134
Liberty Press Edition