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Triumph of the City Triumph of the City

Edward Glaeser

Издател: The Penguin Press

A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive,

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Two Sides to the Coin Two Sides to the Coin

Adam Wasserman

Издател: Lightning Source UK Ltd.

"For Nature herself makes it plain, I think, that gold is produced with toil, is guarded with difficulty, is most eagerly sought for, and enjoyed with mixed pleasure and pain." - Diodorus Siculus, 1st Century BC Greek Scholar With today's volatile economic conditions, the question of gold is more pertinent than ever. The world history of gold,

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Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Издател: Plume

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s last novel, is a dramatization of her unique vision of existence and of man’s highest potential. Twelve years in the writing, it is her masterwork. Is the pursuit of profit a noble enterprise or the root of all evil? Is sexual passion an exalted spiritual virtue or a dirty, animalistic vice? Is reason an absolute or

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Атлас изправи рамене Атлас изправи рамене

Айн Ранд

Издател: ИК

Втората част на този великолепен философски трилър е фокусирана върху Дагни Тагарт и нейната мъчителна дилема как да остане вярна на себе си: дали като продължи битката да запази своя бизнес

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Някои проблеми на новите демокрации Някои проблеми на новите демокрации

Карл Попър

Издател: Университетско издателство

В книгата са събрани статии, лекции и доклади, писани от Карл Попър в различни периоди от неговия живот, но посветени на демокрацията. Според Попър модерните демокрации са изцяло основани

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Издател: Liberty Classics

Volume I of Smith’s great work on political economy. First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments was written by Adam Smith in 1759. It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776), A Treatise on Public Opulence (1764) (first published in 1937), Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795), and Lectures on Justice,

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A New American Tea Party A New American Tea Party

John O'Hara

Издател: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

On April 15, 2009, a grassroots contingency of Americans that would soon become known around the world as the Tea Party made front-page news. Angered by years of excessive government spending-taxpayer financed bailouts of businesses deemed too big to fail and taxpayer handouts to special interest groups-Americans of all ages and all walks of life

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The Big Short The Big Short

Michael Lewis

Издател: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis's, "The Big Short." That's not because Lewis has put together the most comprehensive or authoritative analysis of all the misdeeds and misjudgments and missed signals that led to the biggest credit bubble the world has known. What makes his account

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Autocracy Autocracy

Gordon Tullock

Издател: Kluwer Academic Publishers

In "Autocracy", Tullock provides a scientific analysis of dictatorships, using a rational choice model to analyse the behaviour of individuals under autocracy. Whereas most scholars have applied public choice theory only to co-operative, democratic states, Tullock extends the theory into new territory. In addition, his insights contribute to the

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