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TRANSFORMING SOCIALIST ECONOMIES
Martin Myant
Transforming Socialist Economies presents – for the first time – an account of the initial attempts to transform the centrally planned economies of Czechoslovakia and Poland into modern capitalist economies. -
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INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN A CORPORATE ECONOMY
Russell Rimmer
Income Distribution in a Corporate Economy offers a skilful examination of the influences of financial markets and imperfect competition on the distributive process. Unlike much of the earlier literature, it concentrates upon the short-r... -
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ETHICS AND ECONOMIC THEORY
Kurt W. Rothschild
This distinguished book provides a critical assessment of the relationship between economic theory, scientific objectivity and ethics. The main purpose of economic science is to analyse and ‘explain’ the economic process but not necessa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy
Edited by Charles K. Rowley
Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist–socialist ideas, this book... -
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PROPERTY AS A GUARANTOR OF LIBERTY
James M. Buchanan
Defences for regimes of private property ownership are normally grounded on economic efficiency arguments. In Property as a Guarantor of Liberty a different approach is taken, one that grounds the defence of private property ownership o... -
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RENT SEEKING
Gordon Tullock
This is a succinct but comprehensive account of the research programme in rent-seeking launched in 1967 by Gordon Tullock’s argument that the availability of monopoly rents through government encourages self-seeking individuals to waste ... -
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PARCHMENT, GUNS AND CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Richard E. Wagner
In this far-reaching and insightful monograph, Richard Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers. -
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MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE AND PUBLIC POLICY
A. E. Safarian
Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy is a timely and instructive analysis of the relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the industrialized states. Traditional studies have emphasized the activities of m...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND DISCOURSE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Warren J. Samuels, Jeff Biddle, Thomas W. Patchak-Schuster
The history of economics comprises the accumulated capital of the discipline; its study permits both the retrieval of important ideas and the conduct of analysis which places present day work in context. The essays in this book demonstr... -
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Russia’s Road to Democracy
Victor Sergeyev, Nikolai Biryukov
Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia’s Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why the Congress of People’s Deputies, an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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ECONOMIC PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS IN THE THIRD WORLD
H. W. Singer, Sumit Roy
Economic Progress and Prospects in the Third World combines an elegant and persuasive summary of development progress over the last 40 years with detailed case studies of two major developing countries, Nigeria and India.
