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![THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS]()
THE LEGACY OF RONALD COASE IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Edited by Steven G. Medema
Ronald Coase, the 1991 Nobel laureate in Economics, has had a profound impact on the way that economists and others view both the firm and the relationship between the legal and economic systems. This authoritative collection brings to... -
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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES
Fred E. Foldvary
Rejecting the market-failure hypothesis, Dr Foldvary argues that an entrepreneur can provide collective goods by consensual community agreements. Instead of focusing particular services, as previous studies have done, this book concerns... -
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CONDORCET
Edited by Iain McLean, Fiona Hewitt
The Marquis de Condorcet (1743–94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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the public choice approach to politics
Dennis C. Mueller
The Public Choice Approach to Politics presents some of Dennis Mueller''s most important contributions to public choice and public economics.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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PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY
Edited by Charles K. Rowley
This title is of this important reference collection focuses on the economics of politics. It centres attention on key debates within the literature, counter-poising the approaches of the major schools with their differing theoretical m... -
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SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY
Edited by Charles K. Rowley
This major reference collection presents in three volumes the key articles and papers on social choice theory. -
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THE RIGHT TO JUSTICE
Charles K. Rowley
The Right to Justice reviews the history of legal services in the US from its origins in the 1890s to the multi-million dollar Federal program of the late 20th century. But this is no ordinary text. Charles Rowley skilfully shows how g... -
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RATIONAL CHOICE AND POLITICAL POWER
Keith M. Dowding
This illuminating title applies rational choice theory to the power debate, demonstrating the fallacious arguments of all sides. Power is analysed as a bargaining game where the power of actors is assessed in terms of the resources to w...
