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  • Buchanan's Tensions

    Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of James M. Buchanan

    Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Solomon Stein ...
    Series series Tensions in Political Economy
    James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics and one of the premier political economists of the 20th century, was at the heart of the emergence of public choice theory and the reintroduction of politics to academic economic analysis. Like any great and productive scholar, his body of work includes tensions, flaws, and inconsistencies that must be confronted by scholars looking to engage, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Your Own Good

    Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Adam Hoffer, Todd Nesbitt ...
    Taxing “sin” is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of selective taxation. Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is said to have imposed a tax on whiskey “before the ink on the US Constitution was dry.” Motivated as much by a need to increase revenues as by a desire to do good, politicians often claim that “sin taxes” will fund projects that promote public health as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Legacy of Robert Higgs

    Edited by Christopher J. Coyne ...
    Series series Advanced Studies in Political Economy
    For over half a century, Robert Higgs has been a trailblazer in the fields of economics and political economy, challenging the conventional paradigm of government intervention with incisive critique and rigorous theoretical and historical analysis. As the founding editor of The Independent Review, Higgs carved out an intellectual space for a freer exploration of pressing issues in political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Legacy of Richard E. Wagner

    Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne ...
    Series series Advanced Studies in Political Economy
    Richard E. Wagner has spent more than five decades in academia, holding professorship and leadership positions at the University of California Irvine, Tulane University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Auburn University, Florida State University, and George Mason University. He has contributed to the fields of public finance, macroeconomics, and political economy in more than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ostrom's Tensions

    Reexamining the Political Economy and Public Policy of Elinor C. Ostrom

    Edited by Paul Dragos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke, Roberta Q. Herzberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Tensions in Political Economy
    Elinor C. Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009, with recognition for her path-breaking work on institutions organized to address common-pool resource settings. She and her collaborator and spouse, Vincent Ostrom, contested the scholarship of mainstream political economy, public administration, and public policy in their quest to understand how individuals resolve a variety of social ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Hayek's Tensions

    Reexamining the Political Economy and Philosophy of F. A. Hayek

    Edited by Stefanie Haeffele, Solomon M. Stein, Virgil Henry Storr ...
    Series series Tensions in Political Economy
    F. A. Hayek, a prominent 20th-century political economist in the Austrian tradition,won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for his pioneering work on the theory ofmoney and economic fluctuations and on comparative institutional analysis. Hayek'sresearch highlights the importance and dispersed nature of knowledge, advancingan interdisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior. Like any ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for a Better World

    by Peter J. Boettke ...
    In The Struggle for a Better World, Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences, and political economy in particular, help us understand society and its institutions of governance. Boettke advances an approach for understanding, articulating, and pursuing a coherent and consistent vision of a society of free and responsible individuals who may prosper through voluntary participation in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soul of Classical Political Economy

    James M. Buchanan from the Archives

    by James M. Buchanan ...
    Series series Advanced Studies in Political Economy
    James M. Buchanan, a prominent political economist of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate in economics, was a founding thinker of the public choice tradition and was instrumental in the reintroduction of politics into economic analysis. He was also an intellectual entrepreneur who developed new and innovative centers for research, graduate programs, and outlets for academic publication. Having ... Read more

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  • Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy

    by Karen I. Vaughn ...
    In Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy, Karen I. Vaughn takes us through her intellectual journey and career. As a neoclassical economist by training and a specialist in the history of economic thought, Vaughn, although conversant with the Austrian school of economics, did not fully begin to grasp the fundamental differences between the neoclassical and Austrian schools until 1974, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Land Use without Zoning

    by Bernard H. Siegan, M. Nolan Gray ...
    Series series Mercatus Center at George Mason University
    The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the process from a public policy backwater to one of the most discussed policy issues of the day. In his pioneering 1972 study, Land Use Without Zoning, Bernard Siegan first set out what has today emerged as a common-sense perspective: Zoning not ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Jerry Ellig on Dynamic Competition and Rational Regulation

    Selected Articles and Commentary

    by Jerry Ellig ...
    In the United States, the express purpose of regulation is, according to a 1993 executive order, to "protect or improve the health and safety of the public, the environment, or the well-being of the American people." However well intentioned, all human action carries with it the potential for secondary, sometimes negative, consequences. In the case of regulation, these consequences may cause harm ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Shut Out

    How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy

    by Kevin Erdmann ...
    Series series Mercatus Center at George Mason University
    The United States suffers from a shortage of well-placed homes. This was true even at the peak of the housing boom in 2005. Using a broad array of evidence on housing inflation, income, migration, homeownership trends, and international comparisons, Shut Out demonstrates that high home prices have been largely caused by the constrained housing supply in a handful of magnet cities leading the new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD