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![Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present, Second Edition]()
Financial Crises, 1929 to the Present, Second Edition
Sara Hsu
This fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an overview of the global financial system, Sara Hsu presents both the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of Public Debt]()
The Political Economy of Public Debt
Richard M. Salsman
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featurin...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?]()
The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?
Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger, J. E. King
This book is about the distribution of wealth among people, described by statisticians as the size distribution of wealth, and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides answers to a host of important questions inc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State]()
Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State
Andreas Bergh
This book tackles a number of controversial questions regarding Sweden’s economic and political development: • How did Sweden become rich? • How did Sweden become egalitarian? • Why has Sweden since the early 1990s grown fast...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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![Law and Economics from an Evolutionary Perspective]()
Law and Economics from an Evolutionary Perspective
Glen Atkinson, Stephen P. Paschall
Law and economics are interdependent. Using a historical case analysis approach, this book demonstrates how the legal process relates to and is affected by economic circumstances. Glen Atkinson and Stephen P. Paschall examine this co-evo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900]()
Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900
John Singleton
In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle – a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters – is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan]()
Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan
Motoshi Suzuki
Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan illuminates Japan’s contemporary and historical struggle to adjust policy and the institutional architecture of government to an evolving global order. This focused and scho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System]()
Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System
Edited by Matthew Hollow, Folarin Akinbami, Ranald Michie
With contributions from across the disciplines of law, history, finance, and economics, Complexity and Crisis in the Financial System offers a truly interdisciplinary study of the relationship(s) between crises and complexity in the US a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Monopolies and Underdevelopment]()
Monopolies and Underdevelopment
Calixto Salomão Filho
This ambitious analysis is centered on the evolution of economic structures in colonized economies, showing the effects of these structures on today’s global reality for all economies, whether they are considered ‘developed’ or ‘underdev...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile]()
The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile
Edited by Geoffrey Jones, Andrea Lluch
During the first global economy of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Argentina became one of the richest countries on earth, while Chile was an economic backwater. During the contemporary era of globalization, libe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Individualism and Political Disorder
James M. Buchanan, Yong J. Yoon
Inspired by F.A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order, this book also stands in contrast to the themes of that work, by emphasizing that collective action works differently from the way the market works. The chapters comprise papers ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700]()
Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700
Edited by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, Sok Chul Hong
These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects of the history of health and welfare. The collection includes classic and more recent essays on the origins and nature of mortality decli...
