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![PROPERTY AS A GUARANTOR OF LIBERTY]()
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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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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![THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE TRANSITION PROCESS IN EASTERN EUROPE]()
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE TRANSITION PROCESS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Edited by Laszlo Somogyi
Why has industrial output fallen in Eastern Europe and is further decline inevitable? What lessons can be learned from the stablilization programmes of the first two years of the post-communist era? Should the transitional economies pr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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THE ECONOMIC EMERGENCE OF A NEW EUROPE?
Grahame F. Thompson
Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy agenda as we enter the late 1990s. The Economic Emergence of a New Europe? explores the arguments and forms of analysis deployed by those who... -
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The Politics of British Feminism, 1918–1970
Olive Banks
The Politics of British Feminism traces the history of the women’s movement from the achievement of suffrage in 1918 to the revival of feminism in the late 1960s. Offering new insights into a neglected period of women’s history, Olive Ba... -
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THE ECONOMIC SURPLUS IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES
Edited by John B. Davis
The theory of monopoly capital is central to any satisfactory analysis of accumulation and stagnation in advanced capitalist economies. This major new book presents in one volume recent discussions of monopoly capitalism to emphasize th... -
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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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POLITICAL THOUGHT SINCE 1945
Edited by Leonard J. Tivey, Anthony Wright
Political Thought since 1945 provides for a new generation of readers clear and accurate accounts of the views of seven major thinkers (Arendt, Dahl, Habermas, Hayek, Macpherson, Oakeshott and Rawls). Each one is placed in a context of... -
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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... -
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS?
Edited by Philip Norton
This valauble book presents fresh perspectives on constitutional change in modern Britain. Each contributor – a leading authority in his particular field – focuses on an institution or aspect of the constitution and asks what has change...
