ISBN: 0691125724
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: FROM POSNER TO POST-MODERNISM AND BEYOND 2ND ED
Author: NICHOLAS MERCURO

Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don’t? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world’s worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.
ISBN: 0349119854
Publisher: ABACUS
Subtitle:
Author: TIM HARFORD

ISBN: 0691122970
Publisher: PETERSONS
Subtitle: MODEL SPECIFICATIONS AND ECONOMICS ASSESSMENT
Author: KENNETH J. SINGETON

ISBN: 1842777335
Publisher: ZED BOOKS
Subtitle: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEXT, APPLICATIONS & TRAINING
Author: KEES EPSKAMP

Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the view that states attempts to ameliorate the impact of markets threaten global economic progress and stability. And in an unusual move, he not only defends globalization economically, but also answers the cultural and moral objections of antiglobalizers.

Taking a broad cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, Lal argues that there are two groups opposed to globalization.

Cultural nationalists who oppose not capitalism but westernization, and “new dirigistes” who oppose not westernization but capitalism. In response, La! Contends that capitalism doesn’t have to lead to Westernization, as the examples of Japan, China, and India show and that “new dirigiste” complaint have more to do with the demoralization of their societies than with the capitalist instruments of prosperity.

La! Bases his case on a historical account of the rise of capitalism and globalization in the first two liberal international economic orders: the nineteenth- century British, and the post—World War II American.

Arguing that the “new dirigisme” is the thin edge of a wedge that could return the world to excessive economic intervention by states and international organizations, Lal does not shrink from controversial stands such as advocating the abolishment of these organizations and defending the existence of child labor in the Third World.
ISBN: 0691125910
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE CASE FOR CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Author: DEEPAK LAL