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  New Ideas from Dead Economists: Revised Edition

  by Todd G. Buchholz

  Featuring brand new sections on the remarkable shifts in the world economy, this economic study is a relevant, entertaining, and fascinating guide for those seeking both a solid lesson on the development of economic theory throughout the past two hundred years and a balanced perspective of our current economic state on the brink of the millennium. By applying age-old economic theories to contemporary issues, Todd... (more)
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  The Rational Optimist

  How Prosperity Evolves

  by Matt Ridley

  Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives... (more)
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  The Mystery of Capital

  Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

  by Hernando de Soto

  "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph" writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital , the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail? In strong opposition to the... (more)
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  Work Of Nations, The: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism

  by Robert B. Reich

  What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? How can our country ensure that all its citizens have a share in the new global economy? The author of The Next American Frontier addresses these questions in a trail-blazing new book that is certain to guide a generation of policy makers.
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  The Great Transformation

  The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

  by Karl Polanyi

  One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver
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  Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

  Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

  by Albert O. Hirschman

  An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the... (more)
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  Capitalism and Social Democracy (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

  by Adam Przeworski

  This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure,... (more)
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  Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (Studies in Rationality and Social Change)

  by Adam Przeworski

  The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a worldwide movement toward political democracy and economic rationality. Never have so many people experimented with democratic institutions. At the same time, traditional strategies of economic development have collapsed in Eastern Europe and Latin America and entire economic systems are being transformed on both continents. ... (more)
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  Manias, Panics, and Crashes

  A History of Financial Crises

  by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Z. Aliber

  Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition is an engaging and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. The updated fifth edition expands upon each chapter,... (more)
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  Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Economic and Political Origins

  by Daron Acemoglu

  What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or dictatorship. Daron Acemoglu and... (more)
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  Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy

  by Jeffry A Frieden, Michael Tomz

  This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.
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  Social Limits to Growth

  by Fred Hirsch

  Social Limits to Growth sets forth a new view of the nature and the limitations of economic growth. The author’s central argument is that there are indeed limits to growth currently exist and are essentially social rather than physical. As societies have become richer, an increasing proportion of the extra goods, services, and facilities sought by consumers cannot be acquired or used by all, without spoiling... (more)
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  Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism

  by Meghnad Desai

  'In the triumphant resurgence of capitalism and indeed its global reach, the one thinker who is vindicated is Karl Marx. The demise of the socialist experiment inaugurated by October 1917 would not distress but cheer Marx if, as an atheist, he occupies any part of Hell, Purgatory or Heaven. Indeed, if it came to a choice between whether the Market or the State should rule the economy, the modern libertarians would... (more)
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  Globalization (Greenwood Guides to Business and Economics)

  by Donald J. Boudreaux

  The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. This volume defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy—and how it influences businesses and individuals. Each chapter identifies common questions and issues that have gained exposure in the popular media—such as outsourcing, the high cost of international... (more)
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  Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism

  by Sarah L. Babb

  Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, in contrast, the country is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being run by American-trained neoclassical economists. In 1993, the Economist suggested that Mexico had the most economically literate government in the world--a trend that has continued... (more)
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  The Cash Nexus

  Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

  by Niall Ferguson

  Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, drawing unsettling conclusions about the future of capitalism and democracy. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link--the nexus, in... (more)
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  D.C. North's, J. J.Wallis's,B.R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders(Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Hardcover))(2009)

  by J. J.Wallis,B.R. Weingast D.C. North

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  The World Is Flat

  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

  by Thomas L. Friedman

  When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)