Product Description: The Economic Role of the State presents a comprehensive collection of seminal works from David Hume through to Barry Weingast. Including an original introduction, the volume covers the main theories and justifications for and against state intervention as they have developed over two centuries...read more

Product Description: Perestroika was acclaimed in the west but brought empty shelves in the east. Why Perestroika Failed argues that this was inevitable because it was not based on a sound understanding of market and political processes. Even if the perestroika programme had been carried out to the full it would have failed to bring about the structural changes necessary to transform what was the Soviet economy...read more

Product Description: "Market Theory and the Price System" was published in 1963 as Kirzner's first (and only) textbook. This volume presents an integrated view of Austrian price theory. The basic aim of the book is to utilise the tools of economic reasoning to explain the market process...read more

Product Description: Sub-Saharan Africa has received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last fifty years, yet economic development has remained elusive. In many countries absolute poverty has increased and life expectancy has declined...read more

Organometallic chemistry is having a major impact on modern day chemistry in industry and academia. Within the last ten years, the use of transition metal-based chemistry to perform reactions with significant potential in organic synthesis has come of age. "Advances in Metal-Organic Chemistry" contains in-depth accounts of newly emerging synthetic organic methods that emphasize the unique attributes of transition metal chemistry problems in organic synthesis. Each issue contains six to eight articles by leading investigators in the field. Particular emphasis is placed on giving the reader a true feeling of the particular strengths and weaknesses of the new chemistry with ample experimental details for typical procedures.

This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues.

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Product Description: Market process theory is principally concerned with explaining how the market moves towards a state of general economic equilibrium and how production and consumption plans become co-ordinated. This text presents articles by leading economists analyzing the processes of economic co-ordination...read more

Product Description: The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics is a major reference work which highlights the common ground between all the branches of the school while demonstrating the breadth and diversity within it. The companion reflects the many areas where Austrian economists have made contributions, including technical economics, methodology of the social sciences, political theory and political science...read more

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by Yuri N. Maltsev formerly of the Institute of Economics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR The following study on the history of Soviet economic thought during the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is much more than the regular academic scribble on this turbulent period of modem history. It is a systematic treatise on economic theory. Interdisciplinary in nature, it discusses the central problems of political economy and provides the serious reader with deep insight and complete understanding of the greatest event of the twentieth century: the rise and fall of communism. The foundations ofthe economic system that we see today in a state offull-fledged crisis were laid during the first ten years of the communist regime in the Soviet Union. The symptoms and manifestations of this crisis have been cogently de­ scribed elsewhere. The author should be credited for his appraisal and illumination of the real causes, both economic and moral, of the great drama of our times. At the end of the treatise, it is absolutely clear that only by means of economic theory is it possible to organize and interpret seemingly chaotic historical and statistical data, isolated facts, and opinions that constitute the mass media's coverage of an overly complex array of events in the USSR.