Utopia: The Influential Classic

SIR THOMAS MORE was a rising intellectual star of Renaissance Europe. His brilliance made him an advisor and friend of King Henry VIII. More's Utopia contrasts the squalor and brutal politics of the England of his time with a picture of a peaceful and prosperous society.

NIALL KISHTAINY is a writer with interests in economics and in the history of ideas. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Warwick and has taught economic history at the London School of Economics. His most recent book, A Little History of Economics, was published by Yale University Press in 2017.

TOM BUTLER-BOWDEN is Series Editor of the Capstone Classics series, and has provided introductions for Plato's Republic, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Machiavelli's The Prince, Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It, and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Economics Classics (2017) and 50 Politics Classics (2015).

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