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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$37.56
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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$42.36
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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$35.16
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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$39.96
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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$52.76
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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$39.16
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The Origins of Law and Economics
Edited by Francesco Parisi, Charles K. Rowley
This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field... -
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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$69.56
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![The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital]()
The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...eBook:Find out more$52.76
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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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Policy Analysis and Public Choice
William A. Niskanen
Policy Analysis and Public Choice is an important selection of articles written by William A. Niskanen over the last thirty years. The volume represents two quite different disciplines to which Niskanen has made a major contribution: pol...eBook:Find out more$77.56
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Property Rights, Planning and Markets
Chris Webster, Lawrence W.-C. Lai
This book represents a major innovation in the institutional analysis of cities and their planning, management and governance. Using concepts of transaction costs and property rights, the work shows systematically how urban order evolves...eBook:Find out more$57.56
