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Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and is the first comprehensive history of economics at the University of Chicago from the founding of the University in 1892 until...
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Leviathan is back
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power-through bailouts, "stimulus" packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, "jobs bills," massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism did not suddenly materialize with the recent economic collapse. The dangerous trends of government growth, debt increases, encroachments on individual liberty,...
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Syriza's victory in the recent Greek general election shook the foundations of the Western political establishment and gave hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika. Millions asked, how did this happen and what is it about Greece that created such a centre of radicalism?
This insider's account, from Syriza's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and economist Christos Laskos, shows that that the narrative...
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La expansión de la frontera agropecuaria y la inversión de infraestructura en viviendas, caminos y presas a lo largo de toda la Cuenca del Río Pilcomayo, caracterizan las trayectorias recientes de los proyectos de desarrollo implementados en la región. La aceleración y reconfiguración de los procesos de apropiación y valorización en esta formación social de fronteras han promovido niveles de diferenciación económico-sociales inexistentes...
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Bringing under consideration a significant time span, this brief history of economics is an ideal course for acquainting understudies with the field. This course represents how the thoughts of the considerable economics experts affected social orders along with themselves moulded by their social situation. Not does this course only discuss the history of economics but also talks upon the following topics:
Introduction to economics
Basics of economics
Monopolies,...
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"Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association"
Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996" Douglas A. Irwin is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the editor of Jacob Viner: Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics (Princeton).
About two hundred years ago, largely as a result of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, free trade achieved an intellectual status unrivaled by any other doctrine in the field of economics. What accounts for the success of free trade against...
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The history we can't afford to forget At last, the definitive history of supply-side economics-an incredibly timely work that reveals the foundations of America's prosperity when those very foundations are under attack. In the riveting, groundbreaking book Econoclasts, historian Brian Domitrovic tells the remarkable story of the economists, journalists, Washington staffers, and (ultimately) politicians who showed America how to get out of the 1970s...
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Barranquilla, al comienzo del siglo XIX, era un pequeño puerto fluvial prácticamente sin acceso al mar debido a las dificultades que representaban para la navegación los bancos de arena en Bocas de Ceniza, no obstante, para finales del siglo XIX se había convertido en el principal puerto colombiano y la ciudad se había transformado en un centro industrial y comercial dinámico que contaba con una pujante población en la que se destacarían empresarios...
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and had previously taught at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976. He was also a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981. Anna Jacobson Schwartz is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, which she joined in 1941. She is a Distinguished...
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¿Cuáles son las causas de la pobreza? ¿Son inevitables las crisis cíclicas en una economía de mercado? ¿Es beneficiosa la intervención del Estado en la economía o, por el contrario, es fuente de problemas? Aunque las respuestas a estas preguntas básicas nos conciernen a todos, el vocabulario económico puede ser un obstáculo para muchos. Breve historia de la Economía, escrito de forma amena y accesible, está pensado para todos aquellos...
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How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today?To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked...
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Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coauthor, with Jerome Karabel, of the award-winning study The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985.
Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence...
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"Winner of the 2000 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" William M. Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation.
Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices. Yet, as William Tsutsui argues, the origins and implications of "Japanese-style...
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
78) Telestar
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My book is a scientific description of business combined with psychology and ideas from reading the newspaper. My book also talks about Hollywood and relations between the sexes including Hollywood actresses. I also write about history. My favorite actress is Brooke Shields and most of my ideas come from her. I have known her 25 years and we are often involved. I have written Telestar to describe history of economics and finance with additional history...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of George Packer's The Unwinding by Instaread Preview: The Unwinding by George Packer is an account of the decline of American institutions since 1978.The traditional pillars of American middle-class democracy-government, schools, churches, and the media-have eroded. The American Dream has persisted, but it is no longer attainable through adherence to traditional values like hard work, education, and determination. As the...
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The human heart of New York State's "Black Dirt" region is Pine Island, population 2,000, a hamlet in the town of Warwick in the South-Central section of Orange County, just 60 miles from New York City.
Here, citizens live on outcrops of limestone that rise out of the fertile soil, like islands in a lake - islands in what was indeed once a massive swamp left by melting glaciers 12,000 years ago. Most Pine Islanders are farmers or connected to farming,...
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