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A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics
Edited by Per L. Bylund
This Modern Guide explores central ideas, concepts, and themes in the Austrian school of economics, with a focus on how they, and with them the overall theory, have evolved over recent decades. Leading scholars offer their insights into ...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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![The Politics of Persuasion]()
The Politics of Persuasion
Urs S. Brandt, Gert T. Svendsen
The EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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![Politics as a Peculiar Business]()
Politics as a Peculiar Business
Richard E. Wagner
Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of ‘Lord of the Manor’. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive to capitalism and to society.eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Deficits, Debt, and Democracy
Richard E. Wagner
This timely book reveals that the budget deficits and accumulating debts that plague modern democracies reflect a clash between two rationalities of governance: one of private property and one of common property. The clashing of these ra...eBook:Find out more£22.36
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![Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance]()
Law, Informal Rules and Economic Performance
Svetozar Pejovich, Enrico Colombatto
Capitalism has outperformed all other systems and maintained a positive growth rate since it began. Svetozar Pejovich makes the case within this book that a major reason for the success of capitalism lies in the efficiency-friendly incen...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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![Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance]()
Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance
Richard E. Wagner
This book advances a social-theoretic treatment of public finance, which contrasts with the typical treatment of government as an agent of intervention into a market economy. To start, Richard Wagner construes government not as an agent ...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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![Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking]()
Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking
Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with extern...eBook:Find out more£23.96
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![Law, Economics and Antitrust]()
Law, Economics and Antitrust
Patrick A. McNutt
In this accessible yet rigorous textbook, Patrick McNutt presents a clear and refreshing approach to a wide range of topics in law, economics and antitrust. The issues covered include duty and obligation, contracting, liability, property...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
William A. Niskanen
This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes. William Niskanen... -
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Political Economy and Public Finance
Edited by Stanley L. Winer, Hirofumi Shibata
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which polit...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Ethics as Social Science
Leland B. Yeager
With this important book, esteemed economist Leland B. Yeager grounds moral and political philosophy in the requirements of a well-functioning society, one whose members reap the gains from peaceful cooperation while pursuing their own d...eBook:Find out more£33.56
