The internationalization of palace wars

lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American States.

Fair not flat

how to make the tax system better and simpler

Social security pension reform in Europe

Preventing currency crises in emerging markets

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

The secret sins of economics

Trade in services to the Asia-Pacific region

Antitrust Law

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard A. Posner's exposition and defence of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen ...

Selected works of Merton H.Miller

a celebration of markets.V.1.Finance

Selected works of Merton H.Miller

a celebration of markets.V.2.Economics

Art, culture and media under the Third reich

Economic policy reform

the second stage

The papers and commentary collected here constitute a vital discussion of contemporary thinking on economic policy reform, in particular the difficulties that leave so much of the world seemingly mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and ...

Topics in empirical international economics

a festschrift in honor of Robert E.Lipsey

In this volume emanating from the National Bureau of Economic Research's programme in international economics, leading economists address recent developments in three important areas. The first section of the book focuses on international comparisons of output and prices, and includes papers that present new ...

American business and political power

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in ...

Changes in exchange rates in rapidly developing countries.

Theory, practice, and policy issues..

The history of cartography

.V 2, T 3: Cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies

Individualism and economic order

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and ...

Economics and world history

myths and paradoxes

Paul Bairoch sets the record straight on twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth; that a move away from free trade caused the Great Depression; and that colonial ...

Essays on economics and economists

This text reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists since the 18th century. In 15 essays, the author evaluates the contributions of a number of figures, including Adam Smith, and George Stigler, as well as economists at the London School of Economics ...

Trade and protectionism.

Hegel, Heidegger, and the ground of History

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of ...