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Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative
James M. Buchanan
Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Anarchy, State and Public Choice
Edited by Edward Stringham
The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks]()
Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks
Marianna A. Klochko, Peter C. Ordeshook
Marianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory – the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Pensions and Immigration
Tim Krieger
The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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$55.16
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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$80.76
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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$59.96
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![Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations]()
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its ver...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Changing Institutions in the European Union
Edited by Giuseppe Eusepi, Friedrich Schneider
This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Equality, Rights and the Autonomous Self
Timothy P. Roth
Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self’s ‘natural rights’ against others’ moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist’s utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of ‘s... -
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The New Democratic Federalism For Europe
Bruni S. Frey, Reiner Eichenberger
This innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future ...
