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The (Mis)Behaviour Of Markets
Benoit B. Mandelbrot , Richard L. Hudson
Издател: Profile Books Ltd.
From the inventor of fractal geometry, a revolutionary new theory that overturns our understanding of how markets work.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never assimilated: Clouds are not
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible
Ken Schoolland
Издател: Academic Foundation
"It certainly presents basic economic principles in a very simple and intelligible form. It is an imaginative and very useful piece of work."
--Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
Book’s Awards:
• Awarded the first annual Leonard E. Read Book Award by the Foundation for Economic Education in 2002.
• Thomas Leavey Award for
The Age of Capital, 1848-75
Eric Hobsbawm
Издател: Abacus
A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism through the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism". The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which
The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm
Издател: Abacus
Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established
The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
Издател: Penguin Group
"The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," by Alan Greenspan is two books in one. The first half of this work is an autobiographical chronology of the author's life. This portion of the text permits readers a view of the people and circumstances that helped shape and guide Greenspan. From hours of clarinet and saxophone practice as a
The American Commonwealth
James Bryce
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
As an author, Bryce quickly became well known in America for his 1888 work, The American Commonwealth. The book thoroughly examined the institutions of the United States from the point of view of a historian and constitutional lawyer, and it at once became a classic. In developing material for his book, Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels
The American Commonwealth
James Bryce
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined "the institutions and the people of America as they are." Bryce presented his findings in The American Commonwealth, first published in London in
The American Story
Garet Garrett
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
"He was a defender of free enterprise who adored the magnificence of the American genius for progress.
He was a champion of business who believed in profiting the old fashioned way.
He was a libertarian who deplored the rise of big government.
He was a constitutionalist who was aghast at how presidents and congresses shredded the document in
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
Ludwig von Mises
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
In The Anti-capitalistic Mentality, the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance to economic development and social change.
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