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  • Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty

    by Chris Berg, John Roskam ...
    The Magna Carta is a founding document of individual liberty, the rule of law, and parliamentary democracy. In this accessible and engaging book, Chris Berg and John Roskam explain what the Magna Carta is, where it came from, and why it matters.The barons demanded of King John nothing less than a wholesale revolution of government. The Magna Carta established the fundamental link between tax and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding the Blockchain Economy

    An Introduction to Institutional Cryptoeconomics

    by Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts ...
    Series series New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series
    Offering the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the formation of the blockchain economy, this timely book explores the future of global capitalism. Applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, the authors highlight how blockchains are poised to reshape the nature of firms, governments, markets and civil society.Chapters apply basic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change

    by Chris Berg ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    How should a free society protect privacy? Dramatic changes in national security law and surveillance, as well as technological changes from social media to smart cities mean that our ideas about privacy and its protection are being challenged like never before. In this interdisciplinary book, Chris Berg explores what classical liberal approaches to privacy can bring to current debates about ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Institutional Acceleration

    The Consequences of Technological Change in a Digital Economy

    by Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Jason Potts ...
    Series series Elements in Evolutionary Economics
    This Element develops a theory of institutional acceleration to explain the transformation to a digital economy through a cluster of frontier technologies: artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, cryptography, and low-earth orbit infrastructure. Unlike previous technological revolutions, these technologies transform not how we organise things, but how we coordinate economic ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Cryptodemocracy

    How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice

    by Chris Berg, Darcy W.E. Allen, Aaron M. Lane ...
    Series series Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
    A cryptodemocracy is cryptographically-secured collective choice infrastructure on which individuals coordinate their voting property rights. Drawing on economic and political theory, a cryptodemocracy is a more fluid and emergent form of collective choice. This book examines these theoretical characteristics before exploring specific applications of a cryptodemocracy in labor bargaining and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Last Economy

    A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

    by Emad Mostaque ...
    Your economic life expectancy is shrinking. This is not a recession. It is a phase transition. Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and Intelligent Internet, calls this the Intelligence Inversion: a new age where artificial intelligence turns human intellect into an abundant commodity. That single shift is cracking the old engines of work, money, and meaning that were built on scarcity.Our ... Read more

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  • Foundation

    The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of England
    The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Real World of Technology

    by Ursula Franklin ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crown and Country

    A History of England through the Monarchy

    by David Starkey ...
    An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Technology and the Rise of Great Powers

    How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

    by Jeffrey Ding ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Magna Carta

    The True Story Behind the Charter

    by David Starkey ...
    'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative and analytical. This is good history.' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesAt Runnymede, on the banks of the River ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

    The Science of a Connected Age

    by Duncan J. Watts ...
    The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or ... Read more

    $12.29 USD