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  • Seventy-Five Things Black People Won’T Stop Doing …

    by Randy Simons ...
    Increase our joy;Push aside our anger.Learn perfect love for one and each other;Eliminate the sorrows that the desire toCoexist may grow strong, oh so strongthatHate will have no place among we.Even that we may find untold pleasuresIn coexistence with one and the other! YourBrother or sister. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Beyond Politics

    The Roots of Government Failure and the Case for Private Action

    by Randy T. Simmons, Diana W. Thomas ...
    Fully revised and updated third edition of Randy T. Simmon's landmark examination of "government failure" viewed through the lens of public choice theory, explaining how governments produce stagnation, scandals, and public distrust.Are there really as many market failures as we’ve been led to believe? Or might these be better understood as political failures?Designed both as a stand-alone guide ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Aquanomics

    Water Markets and the Environment

    Edited by Randy Simmons ...
    Series series Independent Studies in Political Economy
    Water is becoming increasingly scarce. If recent usage trends continue, shortages are inevitable. Aquanomics discusses some of the instruments and policies that may be implemented to postpone, or even avoid, the onset of water crises. These policies include establishing secure and transferable private water rights and extending these rights to uses that traditionally have not been allowed, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Nature Unbound

    Bureaucracy vs. the Environment

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Kenneth J. Sim, Randy T. Simmons ...
    What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature?In 1934, former U.S. Forest Service offcial Aldo Leopold, a godfather to the modern ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Beyond Politics

    The Roots of Government Failure

    by Randy T. Simmons, Gordon Tullock ...
    Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that “market failures”—the presumed inability of a free market to deliver certain goods and services deemed to be in the public interest—are common and require government intervention to protect the public good. But is this actually the case?Beyond Politics carefully scrutinizes this view through the modern theory of public choice and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Politics Of Realignment

    Party Change In The Mountain West

    by Peter F Galderisi, Michael S Lyons, Randy T. Simmons, John G Francis ...
    The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984 prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a national realignment of the electorate toward the Republican party. The 1986 elections, however, proved any predictions of a national realignment to be premature. A major shift in voting patterns had not taken place—except in the Mountain West, where a realignment was already in ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Green vs. Green

    The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
    Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new sources of energy face their own set of political, administrative, and legal challenges. Green vs. Green ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard Wolff ...
    What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from "probably America's most prominent Marxist economist" ( The New York Times).Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable ... Read more

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  • The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

    Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center.From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Eco-nomics

    What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment

    by Richard L. Stroup ...
    It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws are ineffective and others have had unintended consequences. In this updated edition, Richard ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Freedom Manifesto

    Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't

    by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames ...
    From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a country founded on the values of freedom and limited government, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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