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The Greatest Trade Ever The Greatest Trade Ever

Gregory Zuckerman

Издател: Penguin Books

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career

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All the Devils Are Here All the Devils Are Here

Bethany McLean , Joe Nocera

Издател: Portfolio Hardcover

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America s most acclaimed business

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The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne

Henry G. Manne

Издател: Liberty Fund

As the founder of the Center for Law and Economics at George Mason University and dean emeritus of the George Mason School of Law, Henry G. Manne is one of the founding scholars of law and economics as a discipline. This three-volume collection includes articles, reviews, and books from more than four decades, featuring Wall Street in Transition,

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The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne

Henry G. Manne

Издател: Liberty Fund

As the founder of the Center for Law and Economics at George Mason University and dean emeritus of the George Mason School of Law, Henry G. Manne is one of the founding scholars of law and economics as a discipline. This three-volume collection includes articles, reviews, and books from more than four decades, featuring Wall Street in Transition,

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The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty

James M. Buchanan

Издател: Liberty Fund

New from Liberty Fund is this monumental twenty-volume collection of the writings of James M. Buchanan, one of the great twentieth-century scholars of liberty. Buchanan, the Nobel laureate in Economics in 1986, has much wisdom to offer—not just to economists and academics—but to all who seek to understand the challenges and opportunities of

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The Demand and Supply of Public Goods The Demand and Supply of Public Goods

James M. Buchanan

Издател: Liberty Fund

Public-goods theory constituted a major element in James M. Buchanan’s research agenda throughout the 1960s. The Demand and Supply of Public Goods is a major part of that work. At the time that Buchanan was elaborating on his theories of public goods, the prevailing trend in public economics was the emergence of public-expenditure theory,

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The Principia The Principia

Isaac Newton

Издател: Snowball Publishing

Newton summarized his discoveries in terrestrial and celestial mechanics in his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica [mathematical principles of natural philosophy] (1687), one of the greatest milestones in the history of science. In it he showed how his principle of universal gravitation provided an explanation both of falling bodies on

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Why The West Rules – For Now Why The West Rules – For Now

Ian Morris

Издател: Profile Books

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global

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The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy

James M. Buchanan

Издател: Liberty Fund

The Calculus of Consent was co-authored by Buchanan with Gordon Tullock, with whom Buchanan collaborated on many books and academic enterprises throughout their careers. As Robert D. Tollison states in the foreword, “[this book] is a radical departure from the way democracies conduct their business. The Calculus is already a book for the

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Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes

James M. Buchanan

Издател: Liberty Fund

Democracy in Deficit is one of the early comprehensive attempts to apply the basic principles of public-choice analysis to macroeconomic theory and policy. According to Robert D. Tollison in the foreword, “The central purpose of the book was to examine the simple precepts of Keynesian economics through the lens of public-choice theory. The

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