The Market System

The Market System
Title The Market System PDF eBook
Author Charles E. Lindblom
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 304
Release 2008-10-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0300129084

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Just what is the market system? This clear and accessible book answers this question, then explains how it works and what it can and cannot do. Lindblom, writing in nontechnical language for a wide general audience, offers an evenhanded view of the market system and its prospects for the future.

Beat the Market

Beat the Market
Title Beat the Market PDF eBook
Author Edward O. Thorp
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1967
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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The Limits of the Market

The Limits of the Market
Title The Limits of the Market PDF eBook
Author Paul de Grauwe
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 182
Release 2017
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0198784287

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Paul De Grauwe examines why a healthy mix of market and state seems so difficult and analyses the internal and external limits of the market and the government, and the swing between these two points.

Market Theory and the Price System

Market Theory and the Price System
Title Market Theory and the Price System PDF eBook
Author Israel Mayer Kirzner
Publisher Ludwig von Mises Institute
Pages 340
Release 2007
Genre
ISBN 1610160290

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Israel Kirzner's outstanding book on price theory is back in print. It is been very difficult to obtain it for decades, even though it is surely the best textbook on Austrian price theory ever written. The prose is crystal clear and the organization exceptional. He takes the reader through the foundations of individual action, exchange, utility, demand and supply, production, and the market process itself. Had it been in print, it would have schooled generations in Austrian price theory, and it is surely useful in the classroom today, or for general reading. Not a collection of essays, it is an integrated presentation from top to bottom, written early in Kirzner's post-doctoral career.

Varieties of Capitalism

Varieties of Capitalism
Title Varieties of Capitalism PDF eBook
Author Peter A. Hall
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 557
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199247749

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Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.

Defending the Free Market

Defending the Free Market
Title Defending the Free Market PDF eBook
Author Robert Sirico
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 226
Release 2012-05-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1596988118

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Thirty years ago, the economic system of the Soviet empire—socialism—seemed definitively discredited. Today, the most popular figures in the Democratic Party embrace it, while the shapers of public opinion treat capitalism as morally indefensible. Is there a moral case for capitalism? Consumerism is an appalling spectacle. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market? Robert Sirico, a onetime leftist, shows how a free economy—including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by the parties to a transaction—is the best way to meet society’s material needs. In fact, the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity has ever rescued from want. But efficiency isn’t its only virtue. Economic freedom is indispensable for the other freedoms we prize. And it’s not true that it makes things more important than people—just the reverse. Only if we have economic rights can we protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—including our consciences. Defending the Free Market is a powerful vindication of capitalism and a timely warning for a generation flirting with disaster.

The Roman Market Economy

The Roman Market Economy
Title The Roman Market Economy PDF eBook
Author Peter Temin
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 318
Release 2013
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 069114768X

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The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity.Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century.The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.