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  • Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition

    by K. Shepsle ...
    Kenneth A. Shepsle surveys the formal literature on multiparty electoral competition. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions

    Edited by Kenneth A. Shepsle, Barry R. Weingast ...
    An ambitious synthesis, Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions attempts to reconcile a number of rational choice viewpoints to produce a comprehensive look at congressional institutions. While most theorists have presented their work as exclusive alternatives for understanding Congress, this volume reconsiders that basic premise. If, in fact, these approaches are mutually exclusive, what ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Political Equilibrium: A Delicate Balance

    by Peter C. Ordeshook, K.A. Shepsle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)

    $115.99 CAD

  • Rule Breaking and Political Imagination

    by Kenneth A. Shepsle ...
    “Imagination may be thought of as a ‘work-around.’ It is a resourceful tactic to ‘undo’ a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it. . . . Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation; it is defiance pure and simple. Whether imagination or disobedience is the source, constraints need not constrain, ties need not bind.”So writes ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Debunking Economics

    The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

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    Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional 'neoclassical' economic theory basked in the limelight. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none ... Read more

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  • The Soros Lectures

    At the Central European University

    by George Soros ...
    Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. The lectures are the culmination of a ... Read more

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  • The Spatial Economy

    Cities, Regions, and International Trade

    by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman, Anthony J. Venables ...
    The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy—that is, where economic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Report From Iron Mountain

    by Leonard C. Lewin ...
    This satire from the 1960s makes a convincing claim to be a government document on the destructive effects of the post-Cold War peace on American society and economy and illustrates the fears of a society struggling with its own identity and purpose. ... Read more

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  • American Gridlock

    Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - Commonsense 101 Solutions to the Economic Crises

    by H. Woody Brock ...
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    $22.99 CAD

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  • The New Future of Money: How Our Debt Money System is Wrecking the World And How You Can Change It

    by Ssemakula Peter Luyima ...
    Ssemakula Peter Luyima provides a new concept for World Economy in the 21st century, by producing a revised concept of MuRatopian Economy; 30 years after Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi presented a synthesized analysis of the Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian with his own public money economic model. It is this author’s intention not only to provide an integrative concept for reconstruction of the ... Read more

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  • Political Economics

    Explaining Economic Policy

    by Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini ...
    Series series Zeuthen Lectures
    What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD