The Servile State - Softcover

Belloc, Hilaire

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ISBN 10: 1440476438 ISBN 13: 9781440476433

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

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The Servile State is a book written by Hilaire Belloc in 1912 about economics. Although it mentions Distributism, for which he and his friend G. K. Chesterton are famous, it avoids explicit advocation for that economic system. This book lays out, in very broad outline, Belloc's version of European economic history: starting with ancient states, where slavery was critical to the economy, through the medieval economies based on serf and peasant labor, to capitalism. Belloc argues that the development of capitalism was not a natural consequence of the Industrial Revolution, but a consequence of the earlier dissolution of the monasteries in England, which then shaped the course of English industrialization.

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Nisbet was Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He was an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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