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A World History of Tax Rebellions A World History of Tax Rebellions

David F. Burg

Издател: Routledge

A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context. Readers can

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It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be

Paul Arden

Издател: Phaidon Press

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief,

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Famous First Bubbles Famous First Bubbles

Peter M. Garber

Издател: The MIT Press

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven,

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Inclined to Liberty Inclined to Liberty

Louis E. Carabini

Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Inclined to Liberty is the FAQ of libertarian philosophy. It’s a great way to answer the more personal questions that are sure to be the focal point of any casual discussion of libertarian principles. For example, Carabini covers, in some detail, what exactly is inequality and if it is really a bad thing? Does the accumulation of wealth make you

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American Colossus American Colossus

H.W. Brands

Издател: Doubleday

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. The three decades after the Civil War saw a wholesale shift in American life, and the cause was capitalism. Driven by J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D.

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Where Good Ideas Come From Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson

Издател: Allen Lane

Johnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history. What sparks our great ideas? Johnson breaks down the cultural, biological, and environmental fuel into seven broad "patterns," each packed with diverse, at times almost disjointed

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Buffettology Buffettology

Mary Buffett , David Clark

Издател: Simon and Schuster

In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity. Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this legendary financial genius and a successful businesswoman in her

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Alchemists of Loss Alchemists of Loss

Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson

Издател: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved

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Liberty Defined Liberty Defined

Ron Paul

Издател: Grand Central Publishing

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our

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Time Will Run Back Time Will Run Back

Henry Hazlitt

Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in that position only by accident, begins to rethink the economic basis of the system. He first begins

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