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Since 1991, Robert Barro has been a lively contributor to the "Wall Street Journal" and other popular financial media. "Getting It Right" brings together, updates, and expands upon these writings that showcases Barro's agility in applying economic understanding to a wide array o…
Schr. - voorstanders van een vrije economie - onderzoeken de rol van de overheid ten opzichte van economie en samenleving en concluderen dat staatsbemoeienis in de meeste gevallen meer kwade dan goede gevolgen heeft gehad
"Boswell and Chase-Dunn describe a spiral of capitalism and socialism - of economic expansion and social progress - that creates repeated opportunities for positive transformation at the global level. They contend that social democracy is both desirable and possible at the level…
"In Power and Prosperity, which he completed just before his death last year, Olson takes on the broadest questions of his career: Why do some economies perform spectacularly, providing incredible wealth and prosperity, while others fail miserably? How do different forms of gove…
The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: that America is now in a position of unprecedented global supremacy. But in fact, Immanuel Wallerstein argues, a more nuanced evaluation of recent history reveals that America has been fading as …
Modern life places a special emphasis on private affairs. Social institutions, and especially our economies, have been organized to facilitate the pursuit of private interests. At the center of this private world is a system of private property which, more than anything, satisfi…