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Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression Between the Two World Wars: Monetary Disorder, Interventionism, Socialism, and the Great Depression

Ludwig von Mises

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

Ludwig von Mises, the author of such classics as Socialism and Human Action, is universally acknowledged as one of the most important classical liberals and economists of the twentieth century. In 1934, he left his native Austria in fear of the Nazis who seized all his papers in 1938 in Vienna and, Mises thought, destroyed them. But the papers

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Beyond Mechanical Markets Beyond Mechanical Markets

Roman Frydman

Издател: Princeton University Press

In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption--that markets act mechanically and

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Billions of Entrepreneurs Billions of Entrepreneurs

Tarun Khanna

Издател: Harvard Business Review Press

Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna’s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models and bringing hope to countless

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Biographical Miscellany Biographical Miscellany

David Ricardo

Издател: Liberty Fund

This volume is a collection of personal correspondence and first-person recollections that focus on Ricardo's life outside of his political economic endeavors. These missives concern the aspects of Ricardo's life that surround his character, his amiable and generous nature, his successful business dealings, and his personal relationships. It

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Bismarck: A Life Bismarck: A Life

Jonathan Steinberg

Издател: Oxford University Press

Since there are a passel of Bismarck biographies, Steinberg recognizes that a new portrait requires a new approach. He adopts one of expansive quotation from Bismarck’s correspondence and from observations of him by contemporaries, which well suits the style of power Bismarck wielded from 1862 to 1890. It was personalistic, entailing domination

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Blink Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Издател: Back Bay Books

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. It considers both the strengths of the adaptive unconscious,

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Bloodlands Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Издател: The Bodley Head

A magisterial new history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people where killed during the years 1933 – 1944. The central event of European history has been overlooked. In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved,

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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Michael Lewis

Издател: Penguin Group

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Josh Lerner

Издател: Princeton University Press

Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when

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Bountiful Harvest Bountiful Harvest

Thomas DeGregori

Издател: Cato Institute

Millions of lives have been saved from malaria and typhus-two of the world's greatest killer-by DDT, a chemical that anti-technology groups in the United States managed to get banned. Yet these same groups oppose regulation of products with proven toxicity-for example, organic foods and alternative medicines-but this contradiction does not seem to

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