An Open Letter to Gary Becker re: Depressions
I was pleasantly surprised to see you seriously entertain the notion that "depressions"-for younger readers, the term economists used to use for what we now call "recessions"-might serve a socially useful function. This is a crucial [... more]
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Gary Becker, legal feminism, and the costs of moralizing ...
Author: Philomila Tsoukala Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 106 Publication Date: 2007-06-22 Release Date: 2008-12-29 [... more]
$9.95
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Fifty Major Economists
 This book is designed as a reference tool for students and writers, providing brief biographical data on the economists who have shaped the discipline of economics, and more extensive exposition and analysis of the major features of their economic [... more]
$26.95
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Liberalism Against Liberalism
The defence of the market and economic freedom has been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents [... more]
$140.00
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De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
Much effort is put into making economics "tractable," as the mathematical economists like to put it. In 1977, two neoclassical economists, Gary Becker and George Stigler, wrote a famous paper entitled "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum." [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Economics of Crime
Yes, economics. There is a fairly well-established subclass in neoclassical economics called the Economics of Crime. It was legitimized for the mainstream by Gary Becker of the University of Chicago, based on some path-breaking articles published ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
From Baseball to Affermative Action to Immigration, How ...
Not just another book on economics, this thought-provoking collection extends well beyond the traditional range of social science and recommends change in public policy and individual behavior to guide readers into the next millennium. This is a [... more]
$3.66
A1 Books |
Treatise on the Family
Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by [... more]
$33.50
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El regreso del idiota (Spanish Edition)
Un "must" para todos aquellos que se interesan por entender a Latinoamérica: Un libro muy acertado, salpicado de fino humor y un extraordinario manejo del idioma. Definitivamente recomendable para los no idiotas y para aquellos que [... more]
$15.95
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Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and ...
Book Description: This work treats these dimensions of Smith's work as elements in a seamless moral philosophical vision. Although many practitioners today see the study of Smith as an antiquarian exercise, this book weaves Smith into a constructive [... more]
$25.99
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Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and ...
Book Description: This work treats these dimensions of Smith's work as elements in a seamless moral philosophical vision. Although many practitioners today see the study of Smith as an antiquarian exercise, this book weaves Smith into a constructive [... more]
$88.00
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an ...
Amazon.com Review: A Message to Amazon Readers from Author Tim Harford Give yourself a pat on the back. You're not as stupid as everyone says you are, and now there's a book that proves it. When I first conceived of The Logic of Life, my aim was to show [... more]
$15.00
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