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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 231. Chapters: Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Thomas Paine, Grover Cleveland, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, William Ewart Gladstone, Frederic Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste Say, Alexander von Humboldt, Henry George, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ron Paul, Vladimir Tism neanu, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Herbert Spencer, Vaclav Klaus, Richard Cobden, Peter Schiff, John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Benno Straucher, John Bright, Ludwig von Mises, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Francis Wrigley Hirst, Charles Bradlaugh, Robertson Gladstone, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leonard Read, Tammy Bruce, Ivan Hribar, S. W. Alexander, Charles Lane, Thomas Spence, Harold Cox, William Tebb, Ljubo Sirc, Michel Chevalier, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Oliver Smedley, Ernest Benn, John Jewkes, Per Ericson, Thomas Mackay, Roland Wilson, Pascal Salin, E. S. P. Haynes. Excerpt: Vladimir Tism neanu (Romanian pronunciation: born July 4, 1951) is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, having served as chairman of the editorial committee (2004-2008) and editor (1998-2004) of the East European Politics and Societies academic review. Over the years, Tism neanu was a contributor to several periodicals, including Studia Politica, Journal of Democracy, Sfera Politicii, Revista 22, Evenimentul Zilei, Idei in Dialog and Cotidianul. He has also worked with the international radio stations Radio Free Europe and Deutsche Welle, and authored ...