Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781610165259
ISBN-13 : 161016525X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls by : Robert L. Schuettinger.

The Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic results. It covers the ancient world, the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval Europe, the first centuries of the U.S. and Canada, the French Revolution, the 19th century, World Wars I and II, the Nazis, the Soviets, postwar rent control, and the 1970s. It also includes a very helpful conclusion spelling out the theory of wage and price controls. This book is a treasure, and super entertaining!

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
Author :
Publisher : Ludwig Von Mises, Institute
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1610166329
ISBN-13 : 9781610166324
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls by : Robert L Schuettinger

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic results. It covers the ancient world, the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval Europe, the first centuries of the U.S. and Canada, the French Revolution, the 19th century, World Wars I and II, the Nazis, the Soviets, postwar rent control, and the 1970s. It also includes a very helpful conclusion spelling out the theory of wage and price controls. This book is a treasure, and super entertaining!

Drastic Measures

Drastic Measures
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 052152203X
ISBN-13 : 9780521522038
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Drastic Measures by : Hugh Rockoff

A history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to the 1970s.

The Great Inflation

The Great Inflation
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 545
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ISBN-10 : 9780226066950
ISBN-13 : 0226066959
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Inflation by : Michael D. Bordo

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 817
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ISBN-10 : 9780674979857
ISBN-13 : 0674979850
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Capital in the Twenty-First Century by : Thomas Piketty

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

This Time Is Different

This Time Is Different
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9780691152646
ISBN-13 : 0691152640
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis This Time Is Different by : Carmen M. Reinhart

An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

Priceless

Priceless
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Publisher : Independent Institute
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781598133974
ISBN-13 : 1598133977
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Priceless by : John C. Goodman

In this long-awaited updated edition of his groundbreaking work Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, renowned healthcare economist John Goodman ("father" of Health Savings Accounts) analyzes America's ongoing healthcare fiasco—including, for this edition, the failed promises of Obamacare. Goodman then provides what many critics of our healthcare system neglect: solutions. And not a moment too soon. Americans are entangled in a system with perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care less accessible. It's not just patients that need liberation from this labyrinth of confusion—it's doctors, businessmen, and institutions as well. Read this new work and discover: why no one sees a real price for anything: no patient, no doctor, no employer, no employee; how Obamacare's perverse incentives cause insurance companies to seek to attract the healthy and avoid the sick; why having a preexisting condition is actually WORSE under Obamacare than it was before—despite rosy political promises to the contrary; why emergency-room traffic and long waits for care have actually increased under Obamacare; how Medicaid expansion spends new money insuring healthy, single adults, while doing nothing for the developmentally disabled who languish on waiting lists and children who aren't getting the pediatric care they need; how the market for medical care COULD be as efficient and consumer-friendly as the market for cell phone repair... and what it would take to make that happen; how to create centers of medical excellence, which compete to meet the needs of the chronically ill; and much, much more... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and decidedly humane in its concern for the health of all Americans, John Goodman has written the healthcare book to read to understand today's healthcare crisis. His proposed solutions are bold, crucial, and most importantly, caring. Healthcare is complex. But this book isn't. It's clear, it's satisfying, and it's refreshingly human. If you read even one book about healthcare policy in America, this is the one to read.

Economics in One Lesson

Economics in One Lesson
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Publisher : Crown Currency
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780307760623
ISBN-13 : 0307760626
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Economics in One Lesson by : Henry Hazlitt

With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.

Praxeology and Understanding

Praxeology and Understanding
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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages : 79
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ISBN-10 : 9781610163620
ISBN-13 : 1610163621
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Praxeology and Understanding by :

Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan

Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
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Publisher : Global Oriental
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9789004217904
ISBN-13 : 9004217908
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by : F. H. King

First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources. In the Introduction, the author notes: ‘The United States as yet a nation of but few people widely scattered over a broad virgin land with more than twenty acres to the support of every man, woman and child, while the people whose practices are to be considered are toiling in fields tilled more than three thousand years and who have scarcely more than two acres per capita, more than one-half of which is uncultivable land.’ Researchers and scholars in the fields of human geography, regional studies and earth sciences, as well as social and economic history will welcome this landmark study being returned to print.