Книги издательства "University of Chicago Press"
Capitalism and Freedom : Fortieth Anniversary EditionSelected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war" How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton ...... |
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of CommerceFor a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s ...... |
Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social IssuesWhen economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, do not typically fall within the ...... |
Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of AdvocacyTalking dogs pitching ethnic food. Heart-tugging appeals for contributions. Recruitment calls for enlistment in the military. Tub-thumpers excoriating American society with over-the-top rhetoric. At every turn, Americans are exhorted to spend ...... |
Capitalism and the HistoriansThe views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system-so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors ...... |
The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek: Volume 5: Good Money: Part 1: The New WorldThe latest volumes in "The Collected Works of F.A.Hayek" concentrate on Hayek`s work on money and monetary policy. In anticipation of the centenary of his birth, these volumes bring forth some of the economist`s most distinguished articles ...... |
The Firm, the Market, and the LawFew other economists have been read and cited as often as R.H.Coase has been, even though, as he admits, "most economists have a different way of looking at economic problems and do not share my conception of the nature of our subject." Coase's ...... |
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990Winner of the 1998 Paul A.Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 ...... |