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Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
Издател: Penguin Books
In the summer of 2003, The New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday life--from cheating to
Free Markets Under Siege
Richard A. Epstein
Издател: New Zeland Business Roundtable
In this paper, Richard A Epstein, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, explains how there are substantial gains to be made from countries getting 'easy' policy decisions correct. Societies collapse and become impoverished when they do not accept the basic principles of freedom to contract and competition. Even in the developed world
Freedom and Reform
Frank H. Knight
Издател: Liberty Fund
The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were written by a legendary professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
Professor Knight (1885–1972) wrote from the viewpoint of ethics as well as economics. His own words best describe his
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation
Henry Hazlitt
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Henry Hazlitt was a leading editorialist for the New York Times from 1934 until 1946. His career at the paper, however, abruptly ended because of the articles collected in this book. He closely covered the Keynesian-inspired Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, He wrote that the attempt to fix exchange rates and peg world currencies to the dollar
Galileo's Finger
Peter Atkins
Издател: Oxford University Press
Why Galileo''s finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo''s symbolic finger for
General Index
David Ricardo
Издател: Liberty Fund
The last volume of this collection is a comprehensive index to the previous ten volumes of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. It gives students, academics, and researchers a single unified source for locating Ricardo's many contributions to economics. The index is designed to help readers trace their topics of interest through all of
George Washington
George Washington
Издател: Liberty Fund
George Washington: A Collection is an important addition to the literature on the American Revolution. The book provides a splendid introduction to Washington and his political beliefs, to the events of the Revolution through which he lived, and to the eighteenth-century world.
—Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George
Give Us Liberty
Dick Armey , Matt Kibbe
Издател: William Morrow
Former U.S. Congressman Dick Armey co-authored with Matt Kibbe, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. The book tells of personal-tea party experiences of ordinary people, the origins of the tea party, and it’s fight for liberty! I recently started the book and will recommend it to anyone interested in this topic. The book is credited as having
God`s Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously
Michael Novak
Издател: The AEI Press
The essay printed here is the lecture delivered by Michael Novak at the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 1999. At that dinner, Mr. Novak received AEI’s Francis Boyer Award for 1999. The award was established in 1977 by SmithKline Beecham, in memory of its former
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Издател: Random House Business Books
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a 2001 management book by James C. Collins that aims to describe how companies transition from being average companies to great companies and how companies can fail to make the transition. "Greatness" is defined as financial performance several multiples better than the market
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