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Eco-nomics
Richard L. Stroup
Издател: Cato Institute
It is one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It is another to be successful at it. Many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty, but many of them don't work and others have unintended consequences. In this book, Stroup explains why many of our environmental laws have failed us and how we might
Industrial Development Through Small-Firm Cooperation
Frank Pyke
Издател: International Labour Office
The object of this short monograph is to draw on research and ideas from recent sectoral and local development studies in order to propose elements that could form part of an appropriate institutional framework for upgrading industrial sectors - particularly in the manufacturing sphere, such as those producing clothing, ceramics, machinery or
Politics and Markets
Charles Lindblom
Издател: Basic Books
Scrutinizes the world's major political-economic systems to reveal the role of free markets in fostering liberty and democracy and to warn of the debilitating impact of big business on democratic institutions.
Policy Reform and Equity
Eliot Berg
Издател: ICEG
Policy reform was the central theme in the development economics of the 1980s. Making it so was the patent failure of internationally aided government-driven economies to foster development -- anywhere -- in the Third World. But as the desire to reform government policies for enabling market-driven economic growth was being reborn, so was the fear
Cooperation and Governance in International Trade
Beth Yarbrough , Robert Yarbrough ,
Издател: Princeton University Press
International trade liberalization historically has taken many organizational forms - unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and multilateral. Given the proliferation of normative views about which of these should be pursued, economists and political scientists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the reasons for the observed variation in
Index of Economic Freedom 2006
collective
Издател: The Fraser Institute
Economic freedom is the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property. In an economically free society, individuals are free to work, produce, consume, and invest in any way they please, with that freedom both protected by the state and unconstrained by the state. In economically free societies, governments allow
Freedom Betrayed
Michael Ledeen
Издател: AEI Press
In Freedom Betrayed, Michael Ledeen weaves together key moments in the fall of communism with the skill of a born storyteller. His insider's knowledge of the interplay of complex personalities and Byzantine strategies makes a compelling narrative - a narrative enlivened by his wit and flair for the dramatic.
He observes that just when democracy
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