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Antitrust: The Case for Repeal
Dominick T. Armentano
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
This tour de force rips the intellectual cover off antitrust regulation to reveal it as a bludgeon used by businesses against their competitors. Unlike many critics, Professor Armentano carries the logic of his analysis to the fullest possible extent: ""My position on antitrust has never been ambiguous,"" he writes. ""All of the antitrust laws and
Theory and History
Ludwig von Mises
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
New hardcover edition, introduction by Murray N. Rothbard
Like Hayek, Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises's writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich von Hayek
Издател: Routledge
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be
Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth
Ludwig von Mises
Издател: Ludwig von Mises Institute
This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system would actually work in practice.
Mises proved that socialism could not work because it could not
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson
Издател: Allen Lane
What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether
The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm
Издател: Abacus
Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established
The Age of Capital, 1848-75
Eric Hobsbawm
Издател: Abacus
A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism through the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism". The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which
The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Eric Hobsbawm
Издател: Abacus
The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Издател: Simon & Brown
The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1850 book by Frederic Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Governmentand in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible
Ken Schoolland
Издател: Academic Foundation
"It certainly presents basic economic principles in a very simple and intelligible form. It is an imaginative and very useful piece of work."
--Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
Book’s Awards:
• Awarded the first annual Leonard E. Read Book Award by the Foundation for Economic Education in 2002.
• Thomas Leavey Award for
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