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  • Knowledge and Entrepreneurship in Public Policy

    by Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall, Ximena Benavides, Olivia Gonzalez, Alexander Köhler, Michael Lachanski, Christian McGuire, Carlos Noyola, Dallin Overstreet0, Natalia Pushkareva1, Thomas Storrs2, Arthur R. Wardle3, Eileen Norcross4 ...
    Series series Economy, Polity, and Society
    Understanding entrepreneurship as alertness to potential profit opportunities and the activities involved with bringing those opportunities to life and public policy as laws, regulations, and activities of government, this volume analyzes the intersection of the two to show how public policy influences entrepreneurship. Using a mix of theoretical and applied research, the contributors argue that ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Public Pensions

    by Eileen Norcross, Daniel J. Smith ...
    Series series Elements in Austrian Economics
    Public pensions in the United States face an impending funding crisis in the wake of the financial crisis and the COVID-19 recession. Many cities and states will struggle to meet these growing obligations without major cuts in government services, reneging on pension promises, or raising taxes. This Element examines the development of the pension crisis through the lens of political economy. We ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    A Comparative and Functional Approach

    by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mariana Pargendler, Wolf-Georg Ringe, Edward Rock ...
    This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of ... Read more

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  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System

    by Jean Tirole ...
    Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent decades have shattered the consensus. In this remarkably clear and pithy volume, one of Europe's leading economists examines these ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Engine of Inequality

    The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

    by Karen Petrou ...
    The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policyFollowing the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • How They Got Away With It

    White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown

    Edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman, David C. Brotherton, , Ph.D. ...
    A team of scholars with backgrounds in criminology, sociology, economics, business, government regulation, and law examine the historical, social, and cultural causes of the 2008 economic crisis. Essays probe the workings of the toxic subprime loan industry, the role of external auditors, the consequences of Wall Street deregulation, the manipulations of alpha hedge fund managers, and the "Ponzi ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Indonesia: Sustaining Growth During Global Volatility

    Edited by -;- Thomas -;- Mr. -;- Rumbaugh ...
    Over the past decade, Indonesia has developed into an important regional and global economy, as well as an active participant in the G20. The chapters in this book document the substantial improvements in the quality of macroeconomic policy that Indonesia has achieved, while also clearly laying out an agenda of measures that should be taken to safeguard these gains and further lower ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Taxing Ourselves, fifth edition

    A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes

    by Joel Slemrod, Jon Bakija ...
    The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the oversimplified and the arcane, presenting the key issues clearly and without a political ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Predictable Surprise

    The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System

    by Sylvester J. Schieber ...
    Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement crisis have been apparent for decades, but we have never mustered the political will to address ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual

    Edited by Strike Debt Strike Debt ...
    Series series Common Notions
    Over the last thirty years, as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than doubled. Increasingly, we are forced to take on debt to meet our needs—from housing, to education, to medical care. The results—wrecked lives, devastated communities, and an increasing reliance on credit to maintain our basic living standards—reveal an economic system that enriches the few ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Twelve

    When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

    by John Coates ...
    The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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