Capitol Investments

Glenn R Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• "Who would spend millions for a job that pays $250k? Parker's answer will surprise you. Required reading for Congress jocks." --Michael C. Munger, Duk... Lees meer

Economics and Evolution

Geoffrey Hodgson

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for ... Lees meer

Titles, Conflict, and Land Use

Lee J Alston, Gary D Libecap, Bernardo Mueller

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers... Lees meer

Capitol Investments

Glenn R Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• What would you do if, the very day you were hired, you knew you could be unemployed in as little as two years? You'd seek opportunities in your curren... Lees meer

Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History

Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Examining how and why agricultural change and development occurred in Western Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries is the central ta... Lees meer

Integrity and Agreement

Alanson Minkler

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• "Two impressive features of this book are its clarity of purpose and the breadth of disciplinary resources to which it appeals." ---Geoffrey Brennan, ... Lees meer

Democracy, Governance, and Growth

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• For many decades, underdevelopment in much of the world was blamed variously on capital deficits, exploitation by rich nations, and market-distorting ... Lees meer

Growth Triumphant

Richard A Easterlin

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experien... Lees meer

The Rebel's Dilemma

Mark I Lichbach

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Since the mid 1960s, theorists have elaborated over two dozen different solutions to the collection action problem. During much of this same period, s... Lees meer

Institutions and Economic Theory

Eirik G Furubotn, Rudolf Richter

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in ... Lees meer

Altruistically Inclined?

Alexander J Field

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to indivi... Lees meer

Signaling Goodness

Phillip J Nelson, Kenneth V Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defend... Lees meer

Reputation

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest, wrote Benjamin Franklin. This volume explores ways in which the ... Lees meer

Preference Pollution

David George

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Seldom considered is whether markets do an adequate job of shaping our tastes. David George argues that they do not, and that the standard economic de... Lees meer

Growth Recurring

Eric Lionel Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broad... Lees meer

Markets and Cultural Voices

Tyler Cowen

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product... Lees meer

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

W Brian Arthur

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This book brings together Professor Arthur's pioneering article and provide a comprehensive presentation of his exciting vision of an economics that i... Lees meer

The Cult of Statistical Significance

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and fo... Lees meer

Growth Recurring

Eric Lionel Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broad... Lees meer

The Cooperator's Dilemma

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• In The Cooperator's Dilemma , Mark Lichbach provides an up-to-date and complete evaluation of the collective-action approach. A special strength of th... Lees meer

The Cult of Statistical Significance

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and fo... Lees meer

From Liberty to Democracy

Randall G Holcombe

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• At the nation's founding, the fundamental principle underlying American government was liberty, and the nation's new government was designed to protec... Lees meer

Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity

Janet Landa

• Hardcover | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity deals with the economic role of laws and institutions in achieving social order in a decentralized economy. Specificall... Lees meer

Imperfect Institutions

Thráinn Eggertsson

• Paperback | Engels | Economics, Cognition, and Society
• The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic s... Lees meer