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The No-Growth Society by Mancur Olson 9780393092608
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393092608Author Mancur OlsonFormat PaperbackImprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton &... -
New Approach to the Economics of Health Care by Mancur Olson 9780844722139
Booksplease Price: £14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844722139Author Mancur OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI... -
Power And Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorships by Mancur Olson 9780465051960
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.74Why do some economies do better than others? How does society encourage the kind of market economy that generates continually increasing incomes? How do particular styles of government affect... -
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of... -
Collective Choice: Essays in Honor of MANCUR OLSON by Jac C. Heckelman 9783642055652
Booksplease Price: £90.56Mancur Olson wrote important books in the area of Collective Choice and is considered one of the founding fathers of Public Choice as a field of economics. The chapters in this volume cover three... -
A Not-so-dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies by Mancur Olson 9780198294900
Booksplease Price: £52.63Modern economics is like a metropolitan area. Economists' ideas about business and markets are like the magnificent buildings of the city centre. Yet most growth and prosperity is in the suburbs --... -
Collective Choice: Essays in Honor of MANCUR OLSON by Jac C. Heckelman 9783540003410
Booksplease Price: £90.86Mancur Olson wrote important books in the area of Collective Choice and is considered one of the founding fathers of Public Choice as a field of economics. The chapters in this volume cover three... -
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Second Printing with a New Preface and Appendix by Mancur Olson 9780674537514
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.67This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular... -
Political Choice: Institutions, Rules And The Limits Of Rationality by Roland M Czada 9780367298852
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book, subtitled "political actors in institutional settings", addresses the main lines of reasoning of the new political institutionalism and rational choice theory. It discusses the question:... -
The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics Lars Udehn 9780415125123
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.95Public choice has been one of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. However there are many people who are frustrated by the uncritical importing of ideas... -
Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists by Richard Swedberg
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.80The boundary between economics and sociology is presently being redefined--but how, why, and by whom? Richard Swedberg answers these questions in this thought-provoking book of conversations with... -
Political Organizations: Updated Edition by James Q. Wilson
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.19A major work by one of America's eminent political scientists, Political Organizations has had a profound impact on how we view the influence of interest groups on policymaking. James Wilson wrote... -
Sociologists, Economists and Democracy by Brian Barry 9780226038247
Booksplease Price: £28.55"Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new-or, more accurately, rediscovered-paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short,... -
Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science by Frank R. Baumgartner 9780691059150
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence... -
Theories of Collective Action: Downs, Olson and Hirsch by David Reisman 9780333494714
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £87.55Individuals make decisions but they do not do so in a social vacuum. The goods they buy are frequently status-symbols in a zero-sum game which some will win and some must lose. Their consumption of... -
The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies by Jerry F. Hough 9781107063693
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £79.19Douglass North once emphasized that development takes centuries, but he did not have a theory of how and why change occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why... -
Architects of Political Change: Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory by Norman Schofield
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.27This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the work of Douglass North, Mancur Olson, and William... -
The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies by Jerry F. Hough 9781107670419
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05Douglass North once emphasized that development takes centuries, but he did not have a theory of how and why change occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why... -
No Growth Society Pb: No Growth Society by M. Olson
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.81'Two policy proposals are particularly notable and owe nothing to the long-standing controversies between left and right. Rather, they suggest new perceptions of reality and a changing sense of... -
Crisis Theory by David Rich 9780275957223
Booksplease Price: £76.81Challenging chaos theory and catastrophe theory, the author contends that with the fragmented state of knowledge in contemporary times, these dynamic equilibrium-oriented theories are inadequate for... -
The No-Growth Society by Mancur Olsen
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08First Published in 1975. Two policy proposals are particularly notable and owe nothing to the long-standing controversies between left and right. Rather, they suggest new perceptions of reality and a... -
The Organization of Interests: Incentives and the Internal Dynamics of Political Interest Groups by Terry M. Moe
Booksplease Price: £32.30"Criticisms of Mancur Olson's theory of group membership and organizational behavior and discussions of the limits of his formulations are not new, but Terry Moe has set them forth in thoroughgoing... -
Agricultural Policy: Strategies, Challenges and Global Implications by Youssef Lee 9798891137202
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £60.36This book consists of five chapters that focus on recent agricultural policy. Chapter one argues that adaptation and households' responses to changes in the environment are complicated by the fact... -
EU Fiscal Policy Coordination in Hard Times: Free Riders on the Storm by Charlotte Rommerskirchen
Booksplease Price: £94.06What happens to European Union (EU) fiscal policy coordination in hard times? Recent accounts of the EU have portrayed the union as plagued by an austerity regime and rampant moral hazard. Charlotte... -
Modern Political Economy: Old Topics, New Directions by Jeffrey S. Banks 9780521478106
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Political economy has been an essential realm of inquiry and has attracted myriad intellectual adherents for much of the period of modern scholarship. The discipline's formal split into the distinct... -
Vietnam in the Global Economy: The Dynamics of Integration, Decentralization, and Contested Politics by Thomas Jandl 9781498525374
Booksplease Price: £51.70This book is, in essence, about incentives: the incentives for competing societal interest groups to cooperate with each other to benefit from a growing economic pie, rather than fighting over a... -
The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History Massimiliano Vatiero 9780367530303
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works. Drawing on both Old and New Institutional Economics and on... -
Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries by Christopher K. Clague
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.17The puzzles of economic development and post-communist transitions, according to Christopher Clague and his colleagues, can be illuminated by a serious economic analysis of institutions. Economic... -
Democracy, Governance and Growth by Stephen Knack 9780472068234
Booksplease Price: £37.42For many decades, underdevelopment in much of the world was blamed variously on capital deficits, exploitation by rich nations, and market-distorting economic policies. The chapters in this volume... -
The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Stephen M. Engel 9780521003773
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44The Unfinished Revolution compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements with an eye toward understanding how distinct political institutional... -
The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Stephen M. Engel 9780521802871
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The Unfinished Revolution compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements with an eye toward understanding how distinct political institutional... -
Architects of Political Change: Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory by Norman Schofield 9780521539722
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the work of Douglass North, Mancur Olson, and William... -
Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom by Noel D. Johnson 9781108425025
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.33Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value,... -
Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom by Noel D. Johnson 9781108441162
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.76Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value,... -
The Political Economy of the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Economic Growth by Gert T. Svendsen 9781840649109
Booksplease Price: £106.02This book offers a generic explanation of the political economy of the EU, demonstrating in a clear and comprehensive way how the present institutional set-up makes it vulnerable to lobbyism,... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441481
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £33.20American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, international relations, military affairs, and American... -
Schumpeter's Venture Money by Michael Peneder 9780198804383
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £113.80Distinctively tying history with theory, political economist Joseph A. Schumpeter reached far back in time to understand what drives economic development and determines its course. Historical and... -
Economic Politics: The Costs of Democracy by William R. Keech 9780521462068
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09This book raises and addresses questions about the consequences of democratic institutions for economic performance. Do institutions of accountability inside and outside government through periodic... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441474
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.35A vital text for understanding the twenty-first-century battlefield and the shifting force structure, this book prepares students to think critically about the rapidly changing world they'll inherit... -
Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes by Thad Dunning 9780521515009
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues,...