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  • Tomorrow 3.0

    Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy

    by Michael C. Munger ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    With the growing popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb, there has been a keen interest in the rise of the sharing economy. Michael C. Munger brings these new trends in the economy down to earth by focusing on their relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction costs. In doing so Munger brings a fresh perspective on the 'sharing economy' in clear and engaging writing that is ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Sharing Economy

    by Michael C. Munger ...
    Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that ‘place’ was a market or, more recently, a shopping mall. But in the past two decades these physical locations have increasingly been replaced by their virtual counterparts – online platforms. Here, author Michael C. Munger demonstrates how these platforms act as matchmakers or middlemen, a role traders have adopted since the very ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Is Social Justice Just?

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, Christopher J. Coyne ...
    “Anyone concerned with social justice will find this book makes him question his assumptions, rethink his premises, and think!”—Andrew P. Morriss, professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, School of Law, Texas A&M UniversityWhat is social justice?In these pages, twenty-one accomplished academics seek to do justice to “social justice.” Inequality exists and obviously causes rifts in ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Choosing in Groups

    Analytical Politics Revisited

    by Michael C. Munger ...
    This book is an introduction to the logic and analytics of group choice. To understand how political institutions work, it is important to isolate what citizens - as individuals and as members of society - actually want. This book develops a means of 'representing' the preferences of citizens so that institutions can be studied more carefully. This is the first book to integrate the classical ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics

    Edited by Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger ...
    Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations. It intends to provoke a conscious effort to compare, and investigate, the public choice of comparative politics.There have been many publications by public choice scholars, and many more by researchers who are at least sympathetic to the public choice perspective, yet little of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice

    by Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger ...
    Series series Michigan Studies In Political Analysis
    There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology.Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large groups of voters share preference profiles, why they consider themselves "liberals" or "conservatives." The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In All Fairness

    Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, Christopher J. Coyne ...
    Has growing concern about inequality led to proposals to remake American society according to ill-conceived and coercive "egalitarian" measures that are fundamentally unjust and harmful?This unique book reveals the modern romance with equality of outcomes as destructive folly. Those elites and bureaucrats who advocate such notions claim that they champion the poor—but more often than not the ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Future

    Economic Peril or Prosperity?

    Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Christopher J. Coyne, Michael C. Munger ...
    What will the economy look like in fifty years? How will our lives as consumers and workers be transformed by the coming innovations in technology, the marketplace, and the workplace? How will changes in demographics and dependency affect our political system? Will economic freedom rise or fall? What, if anything, would greater prosperity do for one’s total well-being?Future: Economic Peril or ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Hesitant Hand

    Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas

    by Steven G. Medema ...
    Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. The Hesitant Hand examines how subsequent economic thinkers have challenged or reaffirmed Smith's doctrine, some contending that society needs government to ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Realizing Freedom

    Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

    by Tom G. Palmer ...
    What is freedom? How is freedom related to justice, law, property, peace, and prosperity? Tom Palmer has spent a lifetime-as a scholar, teacher, journalist, and activist-asking and answering these questions. Since its publication in 2009, Realizing Freedom has been the recipient of wide acclaim, both in the United States and around the world. Now, this expanded edition adds even greater depth and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • An Introduction to Property Theory

    by Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    This book surveys the leading modern theories of property - Lockean, libertarian, utilitarian/law-and-economics, personhood, Kantian and human flourishing - and then applies those theories to concrete contexts in which property issues have been especially controversial. These include redistribution, the right to exclude, regulatory takings, eminent domain and intellectual property. The book ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Culture and Social Theory

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory ... Read more

    $65.99 USD