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Law, Liberty, and Parliament
Sir Edward Coke
Издател: Liberty Fund
The fifteen essays presented in Law, Liberty and Parliament: Selected Essays on the Writings of Sir Edward Coke examine the legal and political realms within which Coke operated, discuss how classical rhetoric underpinned his learning, and place his work in the context of Elizabethan culture.
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality
Frederic William Maitland
Издател: Liberty Fund
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time.
This exclusive Liberty Fund edition of F. W. Maitland's classic includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins, and a general account of Maitland's life and work, "The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William Maitland," by Robert
Darwin's Conjecture
Geoffrey M. Hodgson , Thorbjørn Knudsen
Издател: University Of Chicago Press
Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now.
In Darwin’s Conjecture,
Meltdown Iceland
Roger Boyes
Издател: Bloomsbury
He calculates that the so-called Icelandic “financial elite” consisted of no more than 30 people. The new banks funded the politicians who had privatised them and global expansion came to follow a familiar pattern: “1) Icelandic bank with dubious credentials bids for established foreign bank using borrowed money; 2) targeted bank eagerly
How Capitalism Saved America
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Издател: Random House
"How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present" seems like just the right book to give a market skeptic. "You have doubts about capitalism? Read this." After years of interacting with students in an urban business-school environment, DiLorenzo knows precisely what are the main points of
Politics by Principle, Not Interest Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
“Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is ‘politics by interest,’ whether in the form of explicitly discriminatory treatment (rewarding or punishing) of particular groupings of citizens or of some elitist-dirigiste classification of citizens into the deserving or non-deserving on the basis of a presumed
Why Iceland?
Ásgeir Jónsson
Издател: McGraw-Hill
"Why Iceland?" is the inside account of one of the economic meltdown's most fascinating and far-reaching tragedies. As Chief Economist of Kaupthing Bank, the country's largest bank before the collapse, Asgeir Jonsson is perfectly suited to examine Iceland's collapse in painstaking detail. He witnessed behind-the-scenes events firsthand, such as an
Economic Inquiry and Its Logic
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
This volume presents a collection of Buchanan’s most representative works in economic method and analysis. As Robert D. Tollison points out in his foreword, “[Included] in this volume are some of [Buchanan’s] most often cited works on methodology, including papers reflecting his emphasis on the subjective nature of opportunity costs and the
Politics as Public Choice
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
This volume presents a collection of thirty-four essays and shorter works by James M. Buchanan that represent the brilliance of his founding work on public-choice theory.
The work of James M. Buchanan is perhaps most often associated with his helping to found public-choice theory. Buchanan’s book-length works such as The Calculus of Consent
Debt and Taxes
James M. Buchanan
Издател: Liberty Fund
While this volume presents the important writings of James M. Buchanan on taxation and debt, Geoffrey Brennan makes it clear in the foreword that the thrust of Buchanan’s work in this area has been to integrate theories of taxation and debt with public-expenditure theory. Therefore, the editors strongly urge that the present volume on taxation
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