Free Enterprise & Capitalism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966471Author Benjamin A. RoggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975422Author Colin RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 478Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 936g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246581Author Chris HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the...

Much has been said about the re-emergence of China to its historical position of eminence in the world economy, yet little is understood about the kind of economic system China is evolving. What are the rules of the game of business in today's China, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672099Author Istvan MeszarosFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Since the world economic crisis of 2007, commentators have pointed to the dangers of a capitalistic system that seems incapable of delivering sustainable growth and well-being. This bold new book offers an exhaustive diagnosis of global capitalism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431087Author SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

For much of the twentieth century, rivalry existed between centrally planned and capitalist solutions to the problems of economic stability and growth. This changed in the 1990s. In that same decade, the period of rapid growth of the Japanese economy...

With the radical growth in the ubiquity of digital platforms, the sharing economy is here to stay. This Handbook explores the nature and direction of the sharing economy, interrogating its key dynamics and evolution over the past decade and critiquing...

The original contributions in this Research Handbook provide an introduction to the application of Austrian economics to law. The book begins with chapters on the methodology of law and economics before moving on to chapters which discuss key concepts in...

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese...

While creative destruction and disruptive innovation change the entrepreneurial landscape, regulation - especially regulation of sectorial markets and competition regulation - can delay this change or even bring it to a halt. Grounded in a particular...

This thought-provoking book considers the global challenges and challengers to the economic supremacy of the West. Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy...

For some, Sweden is proof that a generous welfare state is fully compatible with a growing competitive economy. For others, it is a frightening example of what big government can do to a once thriving economy. Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist...

"A brilliant work that shows how the political contours of our contemporary neoliberal societies took shape in the crisis-laden decade of the 1970s"--Book InformationISBN 9781509542000Author Gregoire ChamayouFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint...

The 2009 European sovereign debt crisis and the EU’s policy response to it have prompted scholars to re-think whether diverse national models of capitalism can thrive within the European Union (EU). Are some national economic systems better suited to...

David Simpson skilfully argues that a market economy can be best understood as a human complex system, a perspective that represents a continuation of the classical tradition in economic thought. In the classical tradition, growth rather than allocative...

Economists and the State shows how modern economists have strayed far from Adam Smith's procedurally based, consequence-detached political economy. Timothy P. Roth argues that this "wrong turn" has left economists ill-equipped to address an...

As the Internet revolution continues to unfold and transform telecommunications, pressure is building for faster, less expensive, and more widely accessible broadband service. Such a development would facilitate improved and less expensive traditional...

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism,...

Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism ...

State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary, but it has been and remains central to the understanding of modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called communist spheres of Russia and China and for...

In this timely book, leading scholars of neoliberalism, together with emerging researchers from a range of intellectual traditions, reflect upon the nature of neoliberalism in light of the recent and ongoing global financial crisis. What emerges is an...

When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, many commentators thought it heralded the end of neoliberalism. Several years later, neoliberalism continues to dominate policy making. This book sets out why such commentators got it so wrong, and why...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This...

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial...

This thought-provoking book considers the global challenges and challengers to the economic supremacy of the West. Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy...

In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, such as the...

What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein's 'business meetings' and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics? In this witty and incisive examination of the new economy, Peter Fleming argues that they are closer than you...

This book, an analysis of American society, explores the nature of social change since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disneyworld, from the Mall of America to local mall.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977136Author P HeyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 483Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 808g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063273351Author Mariana MazzucatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798637612406Author Robert ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576752913Author LydenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 95mm * 63mm * 8mm

Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, "progressive" (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America's digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In...

Few international organizations embody the idea of historical progress as strongly as the European Union (EU). This book addresses the main shortcoming of treating EU as a vehicle of progress and political unity between European countries: the disregard...

Handbook of Economic Stagnation takes a broad view, including contributions from orthodox and heterodox economists who examine situations in countries and worldwide regions, including Japan and the Euro area. To be sure, stagnation is periodically...

We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a...

The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation. Vaclav Rybacek examines how these studies have used national...