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Good To Great
Jim Collins , Jerry Porras
Издател: Harper Business
Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for
Governing by Network
Stephen Goldsmith , William D. Eggers
Издател: The Brooking Institution Press
Governing by Network examines, for the first time, government’s transformation from centralized control over public programs to facilitating services through networks of nongovernmental entities, as seen through the experience of dozens of public innovators.
In this model, the role of government is transformed from direct service provider to
Government Failure and Over-Government
Arthur Seldon
Издател: Liberty Fund
"In the fifth volume of The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, Arthur Seldon uses public choice economics research to support his theory of over-government. The term "over-government" was coined by Seldon and is defined as the failure of governments to govern well, leading the public to avoid government programs in favor of markets.
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Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
Gordon Tullock , Gordon L. Brady , Arthur Seldon
Издател: Cato Institute
When market forces fail us, what are we to do? Who will step in to protect the public interest? The government, right? Wrong.
The romantic view of bureaucrats coming to the rescue confuses the true relationship between economics and politics. Politicians often cite “market failure” as justification for meddling with the economy, but a group
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Lawrence W. Reed
Издател: Macinac Center, Foundation for Economic Education
Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed debunks the
Guaranteed to Fail
Viral V. Acharya , Matthew Richardson , Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh , Lawrence J. White
Издател: Princeton University Press
The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to $150 billion, and substantially more will be needed. The U.S. economy--and by extension, the global financial system--has a lot
Harangue
Garet Garrett
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund socialism that kills the rich and consumes wealth.
Garrett illustrates the strange tendency in a story of
Hayek: A Commemorative Album
John Raybould (compilation)
Издател: Adam Smith Institute
Hayek: A Commemorative Album illustrates the life and work of F A Hayek, Nobel Laureate in Economics and the twentieth century's leading thinker on liberalism.
In this book, John Raybould brings together a unique collection of photographs and documents (many of them never before published) from various sources including the Hayek family
History as the Story of Liberty
Benedetto Croce
Издател: Liberty Fund
Written in 1938 when the Western world had succumbed to the notion that history is a creature of blind force. A reviewer at the time noted the importance of Croce's belief that "the central trend in the evolution of man is the unfolding of new potentialities, and that the task of the historian is to discover and emphasise this trend: the story of
History of Education in America
John D. Pulliam
Издател: Merrill Publishing Company
This popular book provides future teachers a solid foundation in the history of American education, from its roots in European tradition, through the colonial period, to the challenges of the twenty-first century. The authors again organize material simply and logically, and present it in the readable, accessible format readers appreciate. Here
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