Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Trend of Economic Thinking The Trend of Economic Thinking Friedrich A. von Hayek This volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised an… OL1164987W
The determinants of currency crises The determinants of currency crises Bjoern Rother A lot of research has been carried out on currency crises, but the existing literature largely fails to adequately recognize the role of politics in creating financial turbulence. This book explains … OL16565407W
Why Nations Fail Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As *… OL16568759W
Scandal of Money Scandal of Money George Gilder From the Prologue... Will conservatives win the coming economic debate? The nation depends on it. We deserve to win, after all. We have the best economic ideas, so we say, aligned with constitutio… OL17337236W
What do economists contribute? What do economists contribute? Daniel B. Klein Economists direct their research mainly to the technical frontiers of the discipline. But the actual decisions of political economy are made not by experts but by ordinary public officials and voters… OL18265913W
Applied Economics Applied Economics Thomas Sowell This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such to… OL1935797W
It could happen here It could happen here Bruce Judson The severe economic downturn has been blamed on many things: deregulation, derivatives, greedy borrowers, negligent lenders. But could there be a deeper problem that is so severe, so long-lasting, an… OL1990214W
Balance Balance R. Glenn Hubbard A quarter century after Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane present a bold, sweeping account of why powerful nations and civilizations break down under th… OL19969873W
The role of government in the history of economic thought The role of government in the history of economic thought Steven G. Medema,Peter J. Boettke The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought examines a controversial area of economic analysis: the appropriate role of government within the economic system. If the first two-thirds of… OL24205179W