C. B. Macpherson
Canadian political scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Crawford Brough Macpherson was an influential Canadian political scientist who taught political theory at the University of Toronto. Life Macpherson was born on 18 November 1911 in Toronto, Ontario. After graduating from the University of Toronto Schools, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 1933. He then earned a Master of Science degree in economics at the London School of Economics where he studied under the supervision of Harold Laski, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1935. At that time a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the social sciences was uncommon, but some twenty years later he submitted a collection of sixteen published papers to the London School of Economics and was awarded the Doctor of Science degree in economics. These papers were then published in 1953 edition as the book, Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System. In 1956 he became a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto.
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Published Works
- The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (1963) (2358)
- The life and times of liberal democracy (1978) (844)
- Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval (1973) (439)
- Property: Mainstream and Critical Positions (1978) (324)
- The real world of democracy (1965) (278)
- Democracy in Alberta: Social Credit and the Party System (1962) (90)
- Adam Smith's Politics, an Essay in Historiographic Revision (1979) (87)
- The rise and fall of economic justice and other essays (1985) (60)
- Do We Need a Theory of the State? (1977) (25)
- Locke On Capitalist Appropriation (1951) (25)
- The Leveller Tracts, 1647-1653 (1945) (23)
- Elegant Tombstones: A Note on Friedman's Freedom (1968) (22)
- Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System (1954) (22)
- University Teaching of Social Sciences (1955) (16)
- Market Concepts in Political Theory (1961) (14)
- The Five Faces of Federalism (1965) (14)
- The Social Bearing of Locke's Political Theory (1954) (14)
- Federalism, Nationalism, and Reason (1965) (13)
- Post-Liberal-Democracy? (1964) (13)
- Humanist Democracy and Elusive Marxism: A Response to Minogue and Svacek (1976) (12)
- Powers, possessions, and freedom : essays in honour of C. B. Macpherson (1979) (11)
- Review Symposium : III—Rawls's Models of Man and Society (1973) (10)
- Class, Classlessness, and the Critique of Rawls (1978) (10)
- 2. After strange gods: Canadian political science 1973 (1974) (9)
- The Future of Canadian Federalism (1965) (9)
- The History of Economic Ideas (1941) (8)
- Pluralism, Individualism, and Participation (1980) (7)
- World Trends in Political Science Research (1954) (6)
- Democracy and Marxism (1955) (6)
- The Meaning of Economic Democracy (1942) (5)
- By Innis Out of Marx: The Revival of Canadian Political Economy (1979) (5)
- Reason in Politics (1939) (5)
- Pareto's "General Sociology": The Problem of Method in the Social Sciences (1937) (5)
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. Vol. V: Speeches and Evidence (1954) (4)
- The Economic Penetration of Political Theory: Some Hypotheses (1978) (4)
- Theories of property : Aristotle to the present : essays (1979) (4)
- On the Study of Politics in Canada (1978) (4)
- The History of Political Ideas (1941) (4)
- Individualist Socialism? A Reply to Levine and MacIntyre (1976) (4)
- Liberalism and the political theory of property (1975) (3)
- Sir William Temple, Political Scientist? (1943) (3)
- HARRINGTON AS REALIST: A REJOINDER (1963) (3)
- HARRINGTON'S “OPPORTUNITY STATE” (1960) (3)
- Principles of social & political theory (1952) (2)
- Income Redistribution and Social Policy, a Set of Studies (1955) (2)
- The Influence of Hobbes and Locke in the shaping of the concept of sovereignty in eighteenth century France. (1974) (2)
- Edmund Burke and the New Conservatism (1958) (2)
- The Balanced Interpretation of the Federal Distribution of Legislative Powers in Canada (The Integrity of the Process of Interpretation) (1965) (2)
- This Was My Choice: Gouzenko's Story (1949) (2)
- Book Review: Soviet Spies: The Story of Russian Espionage in Canada (1948) (2)
- Leviathan Restored: A Reply to Carmichael (1983) (2)
- Federalism, Constitutionalism, and Legal Change: Legal Implications of the “Revolution” in Quebec (1965) (2)
- Hampsher-Monk's Levellers (1977) (1)
- Hobbes and Rousseau: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Maurice Cranston and Richard S. Peters. (New York: Anchor Books. 1972. Pp. ix, 505. $2.50.) (1974) (1)
- American Politics in a Grave New World (1984) (1)
- Scholars and Spectres: A Rejoinder to Viner (1963) (1)
- Soviet Spies: The Story of Russian Espionage in Canada (1947) (1)
- The Political Theory of Social Credit (1949) (1)
- REPORT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDY COMMITTEE (1962) (1)
- Prospects for Economie Policy in a Federal Canada (1965) (1)
- The Criticism of Concepts and the Concept of Criticism (1972) (1)
- Hobbes and His Critics: A Study in Seventeenth Century Constitutionalism . By John Bowle. London: Jonathan Cape [Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited]. 1951. Pp. 215. $2.25. (1953) (0)
- Principles of Social a Political Theory . By Barker Ernest. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press [Toronto: Oxford University Press]. 1951. Pp. x, 284. $4.25. (1953) (0)
- Book Review: Democracy and Marxism (1956) (0)
- Letter from Professor C. B. Macpherson, Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, to Dr. Francis E. Stock, Principal of the University of Natal (1970) (0)
- International Political Science Abstracts (Documentation politique international) ; published with the assistance of UNESCO and the Coordinating Committee on Documentation in the Social Sciences (Oxford: Basil Blackwell; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, $3.00 a year; 75c per issue). (1951) (0)
- Commentaries I Commentaires (1965) (0)
- Book Reviews and Notices : Main Currents in Modern Political Thought. By JOHN H. HALLOWELL. (New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1950. Pp. xiv, 759. $4.10.) (1951) (0)
- The Ruling Class (1941) (0)
- Book Reviews: British and Soviet Colonial Systems. By KATHLEEN M. STAHL. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. 1951. Pp. ix, 114. $2.50.) (1952) (0)
- The Violent Society and the Liberal University. (1969) (0)
- A Disturbing Tendency in Political Science (1950) (0)
- Book Reviews : Income Redistribution and Social Policy, A Set of Studies. Edited by ALAN T. PEACOCK. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1954. Pp. 296. $5.00.) (1955) (0)
- Man and the State: Modern Political Ideas , edited by Ebenstein William (New York: Rinehart and Company, 1947, pp. xvi, 781, $6.50). (1949) (0)
- Book Review:Social Credit: The English Origins John L. Finlay (1974) (0)
- Book Reviews: Bureaucracy in a Democracy. By CHARLES S. HYNEMAN. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1950. Pp. xv, 586. $4.50.) (1951) (0)
- The Levellers and the English RevolutionThe Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620-1660An Immortal Commonwealth: The Political Thought of James Harrington (1962) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. Edited by PIERO SRAFFA and M. H. DOBB. Vol. X, Biographical Miscellany. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1955. Pp. x, 424. $4.75.) (1955) (0)
- Brian Barry, The Liberal Theory of Justice: A Critical Examination of the Principal Doctrines in A Theory of Justice by John Rawls. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973, pp. x, 169. (1974) (0)
- Freedom and Development.@@@The Real World of Democracy.@@@Political Power and Social Change. (1967) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1957 (1949) (0)
- Book Review: This Was My Choice: Gouzenko's Story (1949) (0)
- Economie Policy in Our Federal State (1965) (0)
- The Politics of Self-Development (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews and Notices : A History of Political Theory. By GEORGE H. SABINE. (New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1950. Revised Edition. Pp. xxi, 934. $4.60.) (1951) (0)
- Progress of the Locke Industry (1970) (0)
- Book Review:Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain H. T. Dickinson (1979) (0)
- Interpretation vs. Criticism: A Rejoinder to Professor Crowley (1969) (0)
- Book Review: Marxism (1963) (0)
- Book Review: University Teaching of Social Sciences (1955) (0)
- Book Review:The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-Century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes Samuel I. Mintz (1964) (0)
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