History of economic thought until the 20th century. In 1516 English humanist Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) published "Utopia", which describes an ideal society where land is owned in common and there is universal education and religious tolerance, inspiring the English Poor Laws (1587) and the communism-socialism movement. In 1517 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) published the first known argument for the quantity theory of money. In 1519 he also published the first known form of Gresham's Law: "Bad money drives out good". In 1568 Jean Bodin (1530–1596) of France published "Reply to Malestroit", containing the first known analysis of inflation, which he claimed was
Good Bad Books Good Bad Books "Good Bad Books" is an essay by George Orwell first published in "Tribune" on 2 November 1945. After Orwell's death, the essay was republished in "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" (1950). The essay examines the lasting popularity of works not usually considered great literature. Orwell defines a "good bad book" as "the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished." Orwell concludes: "I would back "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to outlive the complete works of Virginia Woolf or George Moore, though I know of no strictly literary