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The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises by Michael C. Munger
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that 'place' was a market or, more recently, a shopping mall. But in the past two decades these physical locations have increasingly been... -
Were 364 Economists All Wrong? Philip Booth 9780255365888
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45In March 1981, 364 economists agreed to write to "The Times" arguing strongly against the then government's monetary and fiscal policy. However, the Thatcher government decided to ignore these voices... -
Living Down the Past: How Europe Can Help Africa Grow by Paul Collier 9780255364669
Booksplease Price: £5.18Professor Paul Collier argues that the prospects for growth and stability in Africa would be enhanced if the concern about policy reversals were diminished, thus maximising inward investment flows... -
Conservation and the Countryside: By Quango or Market? by Mark Pennington 9780255363792
Booksplease Price: £6.04The author explains why government and bureaucratic attempts at environmental protection have failed and argues that to safeguard the countryside we need to restore private property rights.Book... -
Prohibitions by John Meadowcroft 9780255365857
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22This collection of essays examines those areas where the freedom of individual men and women to voluntarily engage in mutually advantageous exchanges is prohibited or restricted by government. The... -
A u-turn on the Road to Serfdom: Prospects for Reducing the Size of the State by Grover Glenn Norquist 9780255366861
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45Governments throughout the Western world are spending at levels that could not have been imagined by pre-war economists - even by people such as Keynes. High levels of government spending have had... -
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry by Richard Wellings 9780255367400
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45Government management of fisheries has been little short of disastrous. In many regions, valuable fish stocks have collapsed as a result of overfishing. Ill-conceived regulation also means that every... -
How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World? by Matt Ridley 9780255367851
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadn't invented it, would we be still living in the dark? Acclaimed author Matt Ridley (The Rational... -
Crises of Governments: The Ongoing Global Financial Crisis & Recession by Robert J. Barro 9780255366571
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45In this short book, Robert Barro, one of the world's leading economists, examines the causes and consequences of the financial crash. In particular, he looks at the effects of fiscal stimulus... -
The Euro as Politics by Pedro Schwartz 9780255365352
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22The British Government has focused the discussion on the adoption of the euro on its economic consequences. Whilst there are economic arguments for the UK joining the euro, those arguments are not a... -
Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition: Lessons for the Future by Colin Robinson 9780255365833
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54This book continues the series of annual books which critically review the state of utility regulation and competition policy. With contributions by some of the leading figures in the field, this... -
Ralph Harris in His Own Words: The Selected Writings of Lord Harris by Ralph Harris 9780255366212
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93When Lord Harris of High Cross (Ralph Harris) died, in October 2006 at the age of 81, the tributes to him described him as one of the 'men who changed Britain'. Friends and opponents alike... -
Power Cut?: How the EU is pulling the plug on electricity markets by Carlo Stagnaro 9780255367165
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45By any measure, the privatisation and liberalisation of the UK energy industry was an enromous success. And yet the public are not convinced. As energy expert Carlo Stagnaro shows in this important... -
Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation by J. R. Shackleton 9780255367431
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Employment law has been growing rapidly. This has not exclusively or even mainly come from the European Union. Recent UK governments have added such significant new measures as the National Living... -
Against the Grain: Insights from an Economic Contrarian by Paul Ormerod 9780255367554
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Economists and economics have been harshly criticised recently. This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of... -
An Introduction to Taxation by Eamonn Butler 9780255368360
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22Taxes. Why do we pay them? What benefits do they bring? What damage do they cause? And how could they work better? Here, author Eamonn Butler provides a jargon-free guide to taxation, its history,... -
Ethics and the Arms Trade by Philip Towle 9780255364652
Booksplease Price: £5.18The British defence industry is facing greater problems and a more uncertain future than at any time since the 1920s. This concise and accessible title presents an overview of the challenges facing... -
The World Turned Rightside Up: A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalisation by John C. Hulsman 9780255364959
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.74A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalisation. At a time when public opposition to joining the euro is increasing and a debate is emerging about the long term costs and benefits of Britain's... -
Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government by Charles K. Rowley 9780255366427
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45This monograph provides a detailed explanation how the Great Depression and the current financial crisis and economic contraction in the United States were both caused by and exacerbated by... -
Unions Resurgent?: The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Trade Unions in Britain J.R. Shackleton 9780255368452
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Why did the first trade unions form? How have unions changed since they first emerged? What impact do they have on wages, employment and productivity? In this book, J.R. Shackleton answers these... -
An Introduction to Schools of Economic Thought by Eamonn Butler 9780255368483
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22Should economists be concerned with questions of morality? Can economic ideas be applied to social phenomena like divorce rates and crime? What even is economics? Ask an economist these questions and... -
An Introduction to Trade and Globalisation by Eamonn Butler
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780255368032Author Eamonn ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint -
Money and Asset Prices in Boom and Bust by Tim Congdon
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45By considering recent and historical events such as the Great Depression, episodes of boom and bust in the UK, and the malaise in Japan in the 1990s and the early 21st century, monetary economist Tim... -
Bastiat's 'The Law' by Norman Barry 9780255365093
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.81Frederick Bastiat dismantles Socialism, the Nanny State, the Welfare State, Pro-Business Cronyism, and all the other forms of government interference in people's lives. He destroys the perverse logic... -
Unshackling Accountants by D. R. Myddelton 9780255365598
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22In Unshackling Accountants, Professor D R Myddelton of Cranfield School of Management looks at the history of and the arguments for and against detailed accounting standards. Myddelton concludes... -
Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities by Colin Robinson 9780255365604
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.05This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published by the IEA in association with the London Business School. It contains a series of chapters from leading... -
A Conversation with Harris and Seldon by Ralph Harris 9780255364980
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon, as general director and editorial director respectively of the IEA, battled against a conventional wisdom which was hostile to... -
Self Employment: Ladder of Opportunity or Employment Ghetto by Peter Unwin 9780255366106
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22This monograph considers issues that are central to our understanding of self-employment in the UK. The author begins with a review on the evidence of the role of self employment and entrepreneurship... -
New Private Monies - A Bit-Part Player? by Kevin Dowd 9780255366946
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45New forms of private monies regularly hit the newspaper headlines. However, there is relatively little discussion of whether such innovations will last the pace and perform effectively the functions... -
Waging the War of Ideas by John Blundell 9780255366069
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22This paper discusses how 'wars of ideas' can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal... -
... And the Pursuit of Happiness: Wellbeing & the Role of Government by Philip Booth 9780255366564
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22In spite of general reductions in government spending, the prime minister has found room in the government's budget to spend money on a major survey of what makes the British people happy. This will... -
On the Move....: Market for Mobility on the Roads by John Hibbs 9780255363198
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45This Hobart Paper addresses one of the great economic and social problems of our time: the suboptimal allocation of resources that has arisen from the incompatible financial, fiscal and regulatory... -
Does Advertising Increase Smoking? by Hugh High 9780255364232
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Professor Hugh High provides a critical survey of the effects of tobacco advertising. He argues that 'there is no evidence that advertising of tobacco leads to an increase in the total consumption of... -
New Protectionists: The Privatisation of US Trade Policy by Marcus Noland 9780255364676
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45For half a century the US Congress effectively evaded its constitutional duty by allowing the US President to take the lead in the formulation of trade policy. The result was a system which avoided... -
Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics and Social Welfare by Richard A. Epstein 9780255365536
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45In this paper, Richard A Epstein, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, explains how there are substantial gains to be made from countries getting 'easy' policy decisions correct. Societies... -
Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development by Peter J. Boettke 9780255365826
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45Sub-Saharan Africa has received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last fifty years, yet economic development has remained elusive. In many countries absolute poverty has increased... -
Which Road Ahead: Government or Market? by Oliver Knipping 9780255366199
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62In this Hobart Paper, the authors -- transport economics Oliver Knipping and Richard Wellings -- propose the privatisation of the UK road network. In doing so, they examine the traditional objections... -
Waging the War of Ideas: 2015 by John Blundell 9780255366847
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22This book discusses how 'wars of ideas' can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think... -
Teacher Education in England and Wales by Partington 9780255364768
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In this controversial book Geoffrey Partington looks at the nature and history of teacher education in England and Wales. Starting with a discussion of theories of teaching, he explores the various... -
The Tropical Rain Forest: A Political Ecology of Hegemonic Myth-Making by P. Stott 9780255364850
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.45Our attachment to the tropical rain forest has grown over the past hundred years from a minority colonial pursuit to mainstream environmental obsession. The tropical rain forest has variously been...