Books by James O'Connor

Sandwiched between the East and West, Russian intellectuals have for centuries been divided geographically, politically, and culturally into two distinct groups: the Slavophiles, who rejected Western-style democracy, preferring a more holistic and abstract vision, and the more rational and scientific-minded Westernizers

Fiscal Crisis of the State refers to the tendency of government expenditures to outpace revenues in the U

Describes the role that the French democratic revolution played in Russia's intellectual development. This work argues the French Revolution was only a phenomenon of Western civilization and hence transitory. It explains why Russia turned away from democratic to autocratic styles.

An examination of how changes in tax rates and tax structures used to regulate private economic activity in the US. The author theorizes that particular expenditures and programmes and the budget as a whole can be understood only in terms of power relationships within the private economy.