Икономическа политика
Renaissance for Reforms
Stefan Fölster , Nima Sanandaji
Издател: Timbro/Institute of Economic Affairs
In Renaissance for Reforms Nima Sanandaji and Stefan Fölster show that, in spite of initial resistance to market reforms, governments that implement them are rewarded by voters. This finding is true for both centre-right and left-leaning parties. However, the strongest finding, which goes against conventional wisdom, is that left-leaning
Russia
Yegor Gaidar
Издател: The MIT Press
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin’s acting Prime Minister--in the early 1990s. In government,
The Dollar Meltdown
Charles Goyette
Издател: Portfolio
"THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN is a book about the financial future and what you can do about it. And you can do something! You don’t have to be a financial professional, expose yourself to risky leverage, or worry about every tick of the markets… Once you understand the nature of the crisis you will discover that there are common-sense steps you can
The Economics of Liberty
Llewellyn H. Rockwell
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
This collection of short, entertaining, and educational articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. This collection appeared in 1991 and it holds up very well. Some people swear that this is one of the best collections ever printed by the Mises
The Elusive Quest for Growth
William Easterly
Издател: The MIT Press
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as
The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
Издател: Penguin Books
Sachs, economist and advisor to the UN, offers a blueprint for eliminating--by 2025--the hunger and extreme poverty responsible for millions around the world dying because of disease and lack of drugs. With a foreward by rock star Bono, this book tells how to achieve the goal of a world safe from poverty and the terrorism it feeds. He explains how
The Flat Tax
Robert E. Hall , Alvin Rabushka
Издател: Hoover Institution Press
The Hall–Rabushka flat tax is a fully developed flat tax on consumption designed by American economists Robert Halland Alvin Rabushka at the Hoover Institution. Loosely speaking, Hall–Rabushka accomplishes this by taxing incomeand then excluding investment. An individual could file a Hall–Rabushka tax return on a postcard. The
The Great Rebirth
Anders Åslund , Simeon Djankov
Издател: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Twenty-five years after the fall of communism, the Peterson Institute for International Economics has published a new collection of analytical histories by the economic policymakers who themselves led reform of the former Soviet bloc countries. The authors conclude that rapid and bold economic modernization brought greater success than a slower,
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