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Hostile Takeover
Matt Kibbe
Издател: William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers
A rebellious challenge to the "upper management" of government, who are choking American prosperity and liberty
The American enterprise grew exceptional based on the founding principles of individual freedom, decentralized knowledge, and accountable, constitutionally limited government. But our ""leaders"" from Washington, D.C., have
Principles of Economics
Carl Menger
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Principles of Economics" (Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre; 1871) is a book by economist Carl Mengerwhich is credited with the founding of the Austrian School of economics. It was one of the first modern treatises to advance the theory of marginal utility.
Menger advanced his theory that the marginal utility of goods, rather than labor
The Philosophy of History
Georg Hegel
Издател: IAP
Lectures on the Philosophy of History, also translated as Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (German:Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte), is a major work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, originally given as lectures at the University of Berlin in 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831. It presents world history in terms of the
Stress Test
Timothy F. Geithner
Издател: Random House Group Ltd.
STRESS TEST explains in accessible and forthright terms the most controversial and politically unpalatable decisions of Geithner’s tenures at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Treasury, including the harrowing weekend Lehman Brothers went bankrupt; the searing crucible of the AIG bonuses controversy; the development of his widely
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Издател: The Belknap Press of Harvard Unoversity Press
"Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is a book by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the US since the 18th century. It was initially published in French in 2013, with an English translation released in April 2014. The central thesis is that when the rate of return on capital (r) is greater
Russia
Yegor Gaidar
Издател: The MIT Press
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin’s acting Prime Minister--in the early 1990s. In government,
The System of Liberty
Издател: Cato Institute
Liberal individualism, or "classical liberalism" as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights,
The System of Liberty
George H. Smith
Издател: Cato Institute
Liberal individualism, or "classical liberalism" as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights,
The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
Theodore J. Lowi
Издател: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
This widely read book has become a modern classic of political science.
The main argument which Lowi develops through both editions is that the liberal state grew to its immense size and presence without self-examination and without recognizing that its pattern of growth had problematic consequences. Its engine of growth was delegation. The
American Nightmare
Randal O`Toole
Издател: Cato Institute
The American Dream turned into a nightmare when the housing bubble burst, and people have been trying to figure out who to blame- Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? In American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, Randal O'Toole explores the forces at play in the housing market and shows how we
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