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Product Description: Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the world s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas...read more
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9781781955734 | Edward Elgar Pub, June 14, 2014, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the world s leading scholars.
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9781781955741 | Edward Elgar Pub, June 14, 2014, cover price $27.95
Product Description: The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today, economic progress is so much a part of peopleâs lives that they take it for granted...read more
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9780415643948 | Routledge, January 23, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history.
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9781412810203 | Transaction Pub, July 31, 2009, cover price $65.95
Product Description: Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic mainstream literature on economic growth, before moving on to distinguish growth from progress...read more
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9780415770903 | 1 edition (Routledge, March 31, 2007), cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy.
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9780131450424 | Prentice Hall, July 1, 2005, cover price $123.00 | About this edition: Designed for courses in Public Finance, Public Economics, Public Sector Economics, and The Economics of Taxation, this text takes a public choice approach to public finance and looks at public policy as a product of the democratic decision-making process.
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9780472112906 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $90.00
Product Description: At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in state and local government policy. Primarily the province of local government until the 1970s, state governments have become increasingly involved in land use planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780313315954 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2001, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in state and local government policy.
Product Description: Tax-exempt foundations grew substantially in the twentieth century, both in their financial importance and in the scope of their activities. This challenging book examines the economic, cultural, and intellectual implications of tax-exempt organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780765800138 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2000, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Tax-exempt foundations grew substantially in the twentieth century, both in their financial importance and in the scope of their activities.
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9780765806802 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2000, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Tax-exempt foundations grew substantially in the twentieth century, both in their financial importance and in the scope of their activities.
Product Description: LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com This collection presents ideas from the full sweep of this intellectual history, highlighting 15 thinkers who made the greatest contribution to advancing the Austrian School of economics...read more
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9781479235773 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 1999), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: LARGE PRINT EDITION!
Product Description: During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands. This volume shows that state fiscal crises have only one significant cause: revenue downturns associated with recessions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780313304231 | Praeger Pub Text, October 1, 1997, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: During recessions state government fiscal crises are widespread, as states find their revenues inadequate to meet their expenditure demands.
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9780314067494 | West Group, June 1, 1996, cover price $78.95
Product Description: This volume argues that the virtues of the market system, private property, and freedom of exchange can be applied to enhance the quality of life. Although people recognize in the abstract that markets work better than government in allocating resources, government's presence in the economy increases as government intervenes to deal with different problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780313293580 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1995, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This volume argues that the virtues of the market system, private property, and freedom of exchange can be applied to enhance the quality of life.
Product Description: Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power. This approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power, and why even the most powerful government benefits from constitutional rules constraining the government's power...read more
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9780814735060 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This welcome work argues that government is the result of a contract arrived at by individuals with varying bargaining power.
9780333595558 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 1993, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: Analyzing government as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power, this approach shows why individuals agree to political institutions that give their governments extensive power.
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9781349132324 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: Government is analysed as the product of exchange among individuals who differ in their bargaining power.
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9780313266799 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1989, cover price $84.00
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9780534081904 | 4th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Book by Holcombe, Randall G.
Product Description: Democratic decisions determine the alÂlocation of resources through the public sector. Holcombe uses the median voter model as a base, but goes on to develop a more general multidimensional model of democratic decision making that incorÂporates many theoretical developments of the past decade...read more
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9780809312115 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Democratic decisions determine the alÂlocation of resources through the public sector.
Product Description: Holcombe presents theoretical models, melds theory and empirical work, and juxÂtaposes economics and political science. FurÂther, he provides insights into such concepts as agenda control, points out the advantages of incumbency, explains government as a natural monopoly, establishes an updating of the social contract, and examines the virtues of common law in contrast to statutory law...read more
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9780809310821 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Holcombe presents theoretical models, melds theory and empirical work, and juxÂtaposes economics and political science.
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