Locke and the Legislative Point of View

Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law.

Creative Destruction

How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures.

Contents: 1. Trade between Cultures 2. Global Culture Ascendant: The Roles of Wealth and Technology 3. Ethos and the Tragedy of Cultural Loss 4. Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care 5. Dumbing Down and the Least Common Denominator 6. Should National ...

Emblems of pluralism

Cultural differences and the state.

From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many ...

The economic evolution of American health care

from Marcus Welby to managed care

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles ...

with the stroke of a pen

The politics of cultural differences

Social change and voter mobilization strategies in the post-new deal period.

How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters? The authors of this groundbreaking study argue that they did so by doing what Democrats have also ...

Breaking the cycles of hatred

Memory, Law and Repair.

The gifts of Athena

historical origins of the knowledge economy

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution ...

Modern pricing of interest-rate derivatives

the LIBOR market model and beyond

Descripción: In recent years, interest-rate modelling has developed rapidly in terms of both practice and theory. The academic and practitioners' communities, however, have not always communicated as productively as would have been desirable. As a result, their research programmes have often developed with little constructive ...

The Athenian nation

The politics of market reform in fragile democracies

Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela

The free-market innovation machine

analyzing the growth miracle of capitalism

Competitive solutions

the strategist's toolkit

Table of Contents Preface xiii Preamble xiii Contents xvi What Is Strategy? xviii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Executive Summary-- Introduction 7 Chapter 2. Industry Analysis 9 The Five Six Forces 9 Entry 11 Buyer Bargaining Power 16 Supplier Bargaining Power 18 Substitute Products ...

The Ulama in contemporary Islam

custodians of change

From the cleric-led Iranian revolution to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, many people have been surprised by what they see as the modern reemergence of an antimodern phenomenon. This book helps account for the increasingly visible public role of traditionally educated Muslim religious ...

Financial econometrics

problems, models, and methods

Making sense of war

The Second World War and the fate of the bolshevik revolution

Learning and expectations in macroeconomics

A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates, investment, and consumption are just some of the economic variables that are largely explained by expectations. Here ...

From subsistence to exchange and other essays

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings ...

Law´s order

what Economics has to do with Law and why it matters

What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on ...

The strategic constitution

Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues that constitutional theory should trouble itself less with literary analysis and arguments over founders' intentions and ...

Overcome by modernity

history, culture and community interwar Japan

In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent ...

The challenge of global capitalism

the world economy in the 21st century