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The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
New from Liberty Fund is this monumental twenty-volume collection of the writings of James M. Buchanan, one of the great twentieth-century scholars of liberty. Buchanan, the Nobel laureate in Economics in 1986, has much wisdom to offer—not just to economists and academics—but to all who seek to understand the challenges and opportunities of
The Man Versus the State
Herbert Spencer
Издател: Liberty Fund
This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. In addition, it provides "The Proper Sphere of Government," an important early essay by Spencer.
Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration. The meditations serve as an example of how
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941
Herbert Hoover
Издател: Lightning Source UK Ltd.
"The central difficulty during my term as President was, obviously, the worldwide ""Great Depression."" Domestically it first appeared in late 1929, eight months after my inauguration, and continued in the United States not only during my term but for eight years more, until the start of the Second World War in 1941.
That fateful eleven-year
The Morality of Capitalism
Tom Palmer
Издател: Jameson Books, Inc.
The second in the "What Your Professors Won't Tell You" series of essays on political economy, this collection includes thirteen essays; authors include Nobel Prize winners Mario Vargas Llosa and Vernon Smith, Whole Foods Market CEO and founder John Mackey, and scholars from across the globe. This book series is a project of the campus
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
William Rosen
Издател: Jonathan Cape
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea in the World,
The Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto
Издател: Basic Books
It's become clear by now the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in most places around the globe hasn't ushered in an unequivocal flowering of capitalism in the developing and postcommunist world. Western thinkers have blamed this on everything from these countries' lack of sellable assets to their inherently non-entrepreneurial
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
Издател: O'Reilly Media
In this new edition of the classic bestseller, the author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. Since its initial publication, this classic bestseller has been discussed on NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, and at
The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur
Издател: Penguin Books
What is technology in its nature, in its deepest essence? Where does it come from? How does it evolve? With contagious enthusiasm, Arthur, an economics professor and a pioneer of complexity theory, tries to answer these and other questions in a style that is by turns sparkling and flat. Technology is self-creating, though it requires human agency
The Organization of Inquiry
Gordon Tullock
Издател: Liberty Fund
The Organization of Inquiry, the third volume in Liberty Fund’s The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, was originally published by Duke University Press in 1966. This is a treatise by one of the most stalwart practitioners of the scientific method in political economy--Gordon Tullock. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at
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