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The Fatal Conceit
The Errors of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications...
Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason
Text and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positivists, who ignore intent and belief and draw on methods...
House of Debt
How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession—that the total amount of...
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology,...
Having People, Having Heart
Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures—like those in rural Uganda, where Having...
Solidarity in Strategy
Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism.
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by Peter Bearman
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, whether they drink too much, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually...
All the Boats on the Ocean
How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already struggling with warmer, more acidic oceans. How have...
Mastering Iron
The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position...
Cigarettes, Inc.
An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity—for good or ill—to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural...
Building Nature's Market
The Business and Politics of Natural Foods
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
For the first 150 years of their existence, “natural foods” were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks, faddists, and dangerous quacks. In the 1980s,...
The Sounds of Capitalism
Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience...
Overcoming the Saving Slump
How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The great majority of working Americans are unprepared to face the difficult task of planning for retirement. In fact, the personal savings rate has been holding steady at zero for several years, down from 8 percent in the mid-1980s. Overcoming the Saving Slump explores the many challenges facing...
The Getaway Car
A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake’s reputation has only grown, with fans continuing...