George Douglas Howard Cole fu un teorico politico, economista, scrittore e storico inglese, principalmente riconosciuto come socialista libertario e membro di spicco della Fabian Society. Insieme a sua moglie, co-scrisse numerose e popolari storie poliziesche, dimostrando la sua versatilità nella narrativa di genere. I suoi contributi letterari includono importanti opere economiche e storiche, spesso con biografie di figure influenti. Cole ricoprì anche prestigiose cattedre accademiche, tra cui quella di Teoria Sociale e Politica all'Università di Oxford.
Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom min political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. This text is not only a defence of civil society, but also a study of the darker side of political systems.
First published in 1920, Social Theory endeavours to put together the social contents of various experiences of the ordinary man, and to make them, as far as they form one, a coherent and consistent whole. Social theory is not concerned directly with all the actions of individual men, but mainly with their actions taken in concert through some temporary or permanent organized group, and with the actions of such groups as they affect and react upon the individual. It is not primarily concerned with the State but with the whole problem of human association - that is, of associative will and action. This book will be of interest to students of economics, political science and sociology.
This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Economics, burden-sharing, liberty and efficiency, womens' roles: all are discussed frankly with positive suggestions being made.
Kniha autora, který byl předsedou Fabiánské společnosti, obsahuje výklad pojmu a přesvědčení, že současná společnost by měla a mohla poskytnout všem snesitelný a dostatečně vysoký životní standart
