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  • For Your Own Good

    Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Adam Hoffer, Todd Nesbitt ...
    Taxing “sin” is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of selective taxation. Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is said to have imposed a tax on whiskey “before the ink on the US Constitution was dry.” Motivated as much by a need to increase revenues as by a desire to do good, politicians often claim that “sin taxes” will fund projects that promote public health as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Aftershock

    The Next Economy and America's Future

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Animal Spirits

    How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)

    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Capitalism for the People

    Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

    by Luigi Zingales ...
    Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Economics Seriously

    by Dean Baker ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Rollback

    Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse

    by Thomas E. Woods Jr. ...
    Thought the last financial crisis was scary? Just wait…it’s going to get worseAmerica is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy. And the politicians’ favorite tricks-raising taxes, borrowing from foreign governments, and printing more money-will only make it worse. Only one ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Democratic Policymaking

    An Analytic Approach

    by Charles Barrilleaux, Christopher Reenock, Mark Souva ...
    This introduction applies analytic models to policymaking challenges, equipping students with tools to evaluate core policymaking dilemmas. Students are introduced to the approaches of game theory, social choice theory, research design and causal inference. Key terms, along with current research, are highlighted to build an understanding of public policy study. Exercises and thought questions ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • American Dream Dying

    The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged

    by Peter D. McClelland, Peter Tobin ...
    Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based upon the best available data. Collectively, this evidence has alarming implications for the economic ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Why Progressive Institutions are Unsustainable

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    The painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck. It is the product of flawed institutional design. Right now we are reaping the harvest of efforts to reinvigorate the progressive programs of the New Deal that stress high progressive taxes, large transfer payments, strong labor laws, and major barriers to free trade.This combination of public finance ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD