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Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist

Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist

Michael Bierut

Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist is the definitive and exuberant document of the late Tibor Kalman's work and ideas.
Libertarianism Defended

Libertarianism Defended

Professor Tibor R Machan

Professor Tibor R Machan. conditions andvaluable features ofahuman community,arenot only compatible but mutually dependenton eachother forthe purposes of maintaining political justice.22 Misunderstanding of the natureofequality, ...
The Passion for Liberty

The Passion for Liberty

Tibor R. Machan

In The Passion for Liberty, Tibor R. Machan defends a libertarian conception of a free society, one in which individuals are sovereign, self-governing beings, not subject to others' will without their consent.
Europe Since 1980

Europe Since 1980

Tibor Iván Berend

"This important book is contemporary history as it should be written.
Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist

Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist

Tibor R. Machan

Loving the girl in the mirror isn't about changing how you look, but allowing God to change how you see.
Evolution of the Hungarian Economy 1848-1998: Hungary : from ...

Evolution of the Hungarian Economy 1848-1998: Hungary : from ...

Tibor Iván Berend

Finally the book provides a short-term forecast for 2002.
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each ...

Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each ...

Tibor R. Machan

This book does not reject the social nature of human beings, but finds that every one has a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does.
Putting Humans First: Why We are Nature's Favorite

Putting Humans First: Why We are Nature's Favorite

Tibor R. Machan

This book challenges the notion that humans aren't any more important than, say, ants, and ethics and politics must be adjusted accordingly as not to rank human concerns as primary.
Liberty and Equality

Liberty and Equality

Tibor R. Machan

This book takes an unflinching look at the difficult, often emotional issues that arise when egalitarianism collies with individual liberties, ultimately showing why the kind of egalitarianism preached by socialists and other ...
Europe in Crisis: Bolt from the Blue?

Europe in Crisis: Bolt from the Blue?

Tibor Iván Berend

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it.
Liberty and Democracy

Liberty and Democracy

Tibor R. Machan

In Liberty and Democracy, contributors grapple with the issue of the proper role of democracy in a society that is committed to respecting protecting the individual rights of all.
Reality, Reason, and Rights: Essays in Honor of Tibor R. Machan

Reality, Reason, and Rights: Essays in Honor of Tibor R. Machan

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This collection of essays seeks to explore Machan’s philosophical ideas by considering some of the basic issues with which he has been concerned throughout his long and highly productive career.
A Primer on Business Ethics

A Primer on Business Ethics

Tibor R. Machan

The authors begin their discussion of business ethics with the notion that business is an honorable profession, not a wild beast driven by crass self-interest.
The Promise of Liberty: A Non-Utopian Vision

The Promise of Liberty: A Non-Utopian Vision

Tibor R. Machan

The fully free society is but a promise, rarely completely fulfilled but clearly a possibility, not a utopia. This work shows both the promise and why it can be reasonably well fulfilled.
Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond

Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond

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Among the most important recent volumes that have emerged from such scholarly engagement are works by Tibor Machan, Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi, Tara Smith, Neera K. Badhwar, and Roderick T. Long. In the remainder of ...
Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals ...

Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals ...

Tibor Frank

Young Leo Szilard was somewhat compromised under the Republic of Councils as a politically active student, and found the Horthy regime, in the words of William Lanouette, "thoroughly distasteful, and dangerous. [...] He thought he was in ...
Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World ...

Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World ...

Tibor Iván Berend

"Like Eric Hobsbawm's masterful histories of economic, social, and cultural change in Europe, Berend's book covers a vast variety of changes, and convincingly shows that they were all related.
History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras

History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras

Tibor Iván Berend

Berend's memoir offers an interesting case study, a subjective addition to the "objective" historical works on Central and Eastern European state socialism.
Pushkinskiĭ Zhurnal:

Pushkinskiĭ Zhurnal:

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Edited by Eric de Haard, Thomas Langerak and Willem G. Weststeijn. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1990, pp. 13-24. Baroti, Tibor. "Pushkin i obrativshiesia k vere ital' ianskie pqty-sovremenniki," Dissertationes Slavicae. Sectio linguistica, 21 (1990),  ...
History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long ...

History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long ...

Tibor Iván Berend

This movement led to the formation of a landless-peasant-workers' party, the Független Szocialista Párt (Independent Socialist party) in 1897 by István Várkonyi, who was expelled from the Social Democratic party. Spontaneous movements ...
Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society

Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society

Tibor R. Machan

Machan argues that generosity is an important virtue for citizens of a free society and that it can be cultivated only through freedom.
The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988

The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988

Tibor Iván Berend

The Hungarian reforms have attracted those countries wishing to rid themselves of their Stalinist command economies. Thus the book indirectly sheds light upon Chinese economic reforms and on Gorbachev's Soviet perestroika.
Foreign-language and English Dictionaries in the Physical ...

Foreign-language and English Dictionaries in the Physical ...

Tibor W. Marton

WASHINGTON, U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH ... WASHINGTON, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY", 1959. 80P. ... BRITISH MUSEUM. DEPT. OF PRINTED BOOKS. GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. LONDON, 1952 - TO DATE.
Communications and Multimedia Security: 11th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 ...

Communications and Multimedia Security: 11th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 ...

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Christoph Fritsch Oliver Gmelch Hans Hedbom Marvin Hegen Stephan Heim Maarten Jacobs Tibor Jager Burt Kaliski Pablo Najera Michael Netter Anna Perschl Christian Rathgeb Andreas Reisser Ruben Rios Sven Schäge Koen Simoens ...
Freedom and School Choice in American Education

Freedom and School Choice in American Education

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6. See Sheldon Richman, Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families (Fairfax, VA,: Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994). 7. Quoted in Sheldon Richman, “Individuality, Education, and Entrepreneurship,” in Tibor Machan, ...

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