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Environmental Markets
A Property Rights Approach
Av Terry L. Anderson, Gary D. Libecap
Häftad, 2014
502 kr
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Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using …
Contracting in Japan
The Bargains People Make When Information is Costly, Commitment is Hard, Friendships are Unstable, and Suing is Not Worth It
Häftad, 2023
446 kr
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Economic arrangements, Ramseyer writes, are structured and implemented with the intent and hope that they will be carried out with 'care, intelligence, discretion, and effort.' Yet entrepreneurs work with partial information about the products, and people, they are dealing with. Contracting in …
Contracting in Japan
The Bargains People Make When Information is Costly, Commitment is Hard, Friendships are Unstable, and Suing is Not Worth It
Inbunden, 2023
1213 kr
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Economic arrangements, Ramseyer writes, are structured and implemented with the intent and hope that they will be carried out with 'care, intelligence, discretion, and effort.' Yet entrepreneurs work with partial information about the products, and people, they are dealing with. Contracting in …
Following Their Leaders
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Inbunden, 2023
1376 kr
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Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction of causation is largely the opposite. Political elites offer policy platforms to voters, and voters adopt those …
Following Their Leaders
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Häftad, 2023
606 kr
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Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction of causation is largely the opposite. Political elites offer policy platforms to voters, and voters adopt those …
Out of Poverty
Sweatshops in the Global Economy
Inbunden, 2025
1442 kr
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Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how …
Out of Poverty
Sweatshops in the Global Economy
Häftad, 2025
468 kr
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Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how …
Becoming Nations Again
The Journey Towards Tribal Self-Determination
Inbunden, 2025
1411 kr
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North America's Indigenous inhabitants operated effective governments long before European arrival. Tribes built cities, developed laws, and participated in transcontinental trade networks. European arrival, however, brought many hardships for Indians. Although tribes were guaranteed the right to …
Becoming Nations Again
The Journey Towards Tribal Self-Determination
Häftad, 2025
458 kr
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North America's Indigenous inhabitants operated effective governments long before European arrival. Tribes built cities, developed laws, and participated in transcontinental trade networks. European arrival, however, brought many hardships for Indians. Although tribes were guaranteed the right to …
Extralegal Governance
The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China
Av Peng Wang, Wanlin Lin
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It considers social legitimacy and state repression in examining the nature of illegal markets. It …
Extralegal Governance
The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China
Av Peng Wang, Wanlin Lin
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It considers social legitimacy and state repression in examining the nature of illegal markets. It …
The Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America
Häftad, 2025
435 kr
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Venal Origins is a comparative and historical study of the roots of spatial inequalities in Spanish America. The book focuses on the Spanish colonial administration and the 18th-century practice of office-selling-where colonial positions were exchanged for money-to analyze its lasting impact on …
The Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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Venal Origins is a comparative and historical study of the roots of spatial inequalities in Spanish America. The book focuses on the Spanish colonial administration and the 18th-century practice of office-selling-where colonial positions were exchanged for money-to analyze its lasting impact on …
Politics as Exchange
An Analysis of the Political Marketplace
Inbunden, 2025
1290 kr
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Political institutions have been depicted by academics as a marketplace where citizens transact with each other to accomplish collective ends difficult to accomplish otherwise. This depiction supports a romantic notion of democracy in which democratic governments are accountable to their citizens, …
Politics as Exchange
An Analysis of the Political Marketplace
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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Political institutions have been depicted by academics as a marketplace where citizens transact with each other to accomplish collective ends difficult to accomplish otherwise. This depiction supports a romantic notion of democracy in which democratic governments are accountable to their citizens, …
The Ethics of Influence
Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
Häftad, 2026
286 kr
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In recent years, 'nudge units' or 'behavioral insights teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce …
Military Clubs
Rationality Underlying Seemingly Irrational Behavior
Häftad, 2027
351 kr
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Why would one willingly fight for a foreign ruler? And why would foreign rulers recruit soldiers only from small minorities? In Military Clubs, Charles Miller argues these puzzles have a rational answer. He explains how rulers seek to hire from specific cultural and religious minorities - or …
Military Clubs
Rationality Underlying Seemingly Irrational Behavior
Inbunden, 2027
1132 kr
Kommande
Why would one willingly fight for a foreign ruler? And why would foreign rulers recruit soldiers only from small minorities? In Military Clubs, Charles Miller argues these puzzles have a rational answer. He explains how rulers seek to hire from specific cultural and religious minorities - or …
Environmental Markets
A Property Rights Approach
Av Terry L. Anderson, Gary D. Libecap
Inbunden, 2014
1224 kr
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Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using …
Escaping Paternalism
Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy
Av Mario J. Rizzo, Glen Whitman
Inbunden, 2019
2214 kr
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The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition …
Anarchy Unbound
Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think
Inbunden, 2014
1362 kr
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In Anarchy Unbound, Peter T. Leeson uses rational choice theory to explore the benefits of self-governance. Relying on experience from the past and present, Professor Leeson provides evidence of anarchy 'working' where it is least expected to do so and explains how this is possible. Provocatively, …
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not
Av Jared Rubin
Inbunden, 2017
1761 kr
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For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Why was it not born in the Middle East? In this book Jared Rubin examines the role that Islam played in this reversal of fortunes. It argues that the religion itself is …
The Punisher's Brain
The Evolution of Judge and Jury
Inbunden, 2014
498 kr
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Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains by …
Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam
Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision
Av Carolyn M. Warner, Ramazan Kılınç m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1723 kr
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Using an innovative methodological approach combining field experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and resources. Drawing upon research involving more than …
Expert Failure
Av Roger Koppl
Inbunden, 2018
1723 kr
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The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the …
The Ethics of Influence
Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
Inbunden, 2016
382 kr
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In recent years, 'nudge units' or 'behavioral insights teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce …
The Laws and Economics of Confucianism
Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England
Av Taisu Zhang
Inbunden, 2017
1871 kr
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Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic development went down different paths. The …
Islam Instrumentalized
Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
1677 kr
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In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates? In his nuanced approach, Platteau challenges the widespread view that the doctrine of Islam …
Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance
Inbunden, 2018
1723 kr
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In this book Paul Dragos Aligica revisits the theory of political self-governance in the context of recent developments in behavioral economics and political philosophy that have challenged the foundations of this theory. Building on the work of the 'Bloomington School' created by Nobel Laureate …
Humanomics
Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
Av Vernon L. Smith, Bart J. Wilson
Inbunden, 2019
1375 kr
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While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time …
