Economics
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Frédéric Bastiat [BASTIAT, FRÉDÉRIC]

Fénelon’s idyll on Crete is still more fascinating. Mentor is made to say: All that you will see in this wonderful island is the result of the laws of Minos. ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-08-16 | Author:Murray N. Rothbard

____________________ 1. On the crucial legal and philosophical distinction between patents and copyrights, see Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1962), vol. 2, pp. ...
( Category: Radicalism September 28,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Peter Thiel [Thiel, Peter]

THE CASE FOR SECRETS You can’t find secrets without looking for them. Andrew Wiles demonstrated this when he proved Fermat’s Last Theorem after 358 years of fruitless inquiry by other ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Guy Standing

Witnesses and assessments made under oath, no condemnation without due process and nothing disproportional – all this was strengthened by later clauses, with the ‘we’ referring to the king: 38. ...
( Category: Social Policy September 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J. [Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J.]

And so it was that David Lee Roth and King Solomon both engaged in a fruitful bit of game theory—which, narrowly defined, is the art of beating your opponent by ...
( Category: Popular Culture September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]

THE TORCH IS PASSED James was a rabid Catholic, but the opposing Dissenters and parliamentarians were not alarmed by his religious beliefs. James was past fifty years old when he ...
( Category: Economic Policy & Development September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]

The VOC quickly recognized that if it was to monopolize the spice trade, the Bandanese would have to go. And go they did, with a brutality and efficiency that would ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 22,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2002-04-26 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]

How to Handle the Panic What is the investor to do during the inevitable crashes that characterize the capital markets? At a minimum, you should not panic and sell out—simply ...
( Category: Economic History September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Edward Dolnick

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Stockman [Stockman, David A.]

CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS How Wall Street Got Huge THE COLLAPSE OF THREE SEPARATE $5 TRILLION FINANCIAL BUBBLES in less than a decade attested to the ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 22,2014 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Goolsbee,Levitt & Syverson

Market Power and Pricing Strategies Chapter 10 399 and increase its producer surplus by using direct price discrimination, that is, by charging different prices to different customers based on something ...
( Category: Microeconomics September 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-12 | Author:Bill Quinn

REASON #2: Always the Low Road Wal-Mart got by with the slogan “Always the Lowest Price. Always” for years, until the National Advertising Review Board, which is funded by the ...
( Category: Retailing September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Bill Quinn [Quinn, Bill]

REASON #2: Always the Low Road Wal-Mart got by with the slogan “Always the Lowest Price. Always” for years, until the National Advertising Review Board, which is funded by the ...
( Category: Economic Conditions September 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Naomi Klein

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 17,2014 )