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  • Autocracy

    by G. Tullock ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    My first serious thought about a scientific approach to politics was in Communist China. When the Communists seized China, the American Department of State, which was planning to recognize them, left its entire diplomatic establishment in place. At the time, I was a Vice Consul in Tientsin, so I found myself living under the Communists. While the Department of State was planning on recognizing the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice

    The Unpublished Works of Duncan Black

    Edited by G. Tullock, Gordon L. Brady ...
    Duncan Black made a significant contribution to the development of public choice theory during his lifetime. Upon his death it became apparent that much of his scholarship and critique of economics was never published. Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice is a collection of Duncan Black's unpublished works, representing his continuing contribution to economics and political science. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Economics of Income Redistribution

    by G. Tullock ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    While income redistribution is one of the most important functions of modern governments, the world has changed greatly since this first edition of Economics of Income Redistribution was published in 1983. Pension systems and medical programs are in a state of crisis in many parts of the world and the general political mood is shifting away from income redistribution. Economics of Income ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Economic Hierarchies, Organization and the Structure of Production

    by G. Tullock ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Public Choice
    Economics has been basically a study of the interactions between organizations, with some organizations being so small we only have one person in them. The internal organization of the largest hierarchies has indeed been looked at, but a good reason for working less on these organizations is that the internal reactions are much harder to understand. It is sensible to solve the problems we can ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Economics of Special Privilege and Rent Seeking

    by G. Tullock ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As the reader of this book probably already knows, I have devoted a great deal of time to the topic which is, rather unfortunately, named rent seeking. Rent seeking, the use of resources in actually lowering total product although benefiting some minority, is, unfortunately, a major activity of most governments. As a result of this, I have stumbled on a puzzle. The rent-seeking activity found in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Skidelsky ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of Keynes, explores his ethical and practical philosophy, his monetary thought, and provides an insight into his life and works. In the recent ... Read more

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  • The Indispensable Milton Friedman

    Essays on Politics and Economics

    Edited by Lanny Ebenstein ...
    Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulation and welfare have inspired movements, influenced government policies, and changed the course of America’s economic history.Now, acclaimed Friedman biographer Dr. Lanny Ebenstein brings together twenty of Friedman’s greatest essays in his new book, The ... Read more

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  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow’s seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers."Far beyond a classic, this small book unleashed the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'

    A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency

    by Andrew Kliman ...
    Series series The Raya Dunayevskaya Series in Marxism and Humanism
    This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By modifying the standard interpretation of Marx's value theory in two simple ways, the recent 'temporal ... Read more

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  • What Economists Do: a Journey Through the History of Economic Thought

    From the Wealth of Nations to the Calculus of Consent

    by Attiat F. Ott, Sheila Vegari ...
    Economists are sometimes praised and often chastised for what happens to the nation and the world economies. But what exactly do economists do to earn either praise or scorn? Author Attiat F. Ott with Sheila Vegari explores the answer to that question in What Economists Do: A Journey through the History of Economic Thought.Ott and Vegari outline the discipline of economics through the views and ... Read more

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  • Economic Theory in Retrospect

    by Mark Blaug ...
    This is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes - but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is a history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines, that is, it is consistently focused on theoretical analysis, undiluted by entertaining historical digressions or biological colouring. Secondly, it includes detailed Reader's Guides to nine of the major texts ... Read more

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  • Fiscal Theory and Political Economy

    Selected Essays

    by James M. Buchanan ...
    This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making in fiscal theories as well as the methodological setting in which positive proportions in fiscal theory must be developed.Originally published in 1960.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- ... Read more

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