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  • Trouble at the Bar

    An Economics Perspective on the Legal Profession and the Case for Fundamental Reform

    by Clifford Winston, David Burk, Jia Yan ...
    Deregulating the legal profession will benefit society by improving access to legal services and the efficacy of public policies.Lawyers dominate a judicial system that has come under fire for limiting access to its services to primarily the most affluent members of society. Lawyers also have a pervasive influence throughout other parts of government. This is the first book offering a critical ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Finance and the Good Society

    by Robert J. Shiller ...
    The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Antitrust Law, Second Edition

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The definitive textbook of antitrust lawAntitrust Law was fundamental to redefining the field of antitrust law and it remains the definitive textbook for those teaching or learning the subject, Richard Posner's book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a body of economically rational principles largely in accord with the ideas set forth in the first edition. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $150.99 USD

  • The Poverty Industry

    The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens

    by Daniel L Hatcher ...
    How funds for the needy are siphoned off for profit: "A distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars." ― Boston ReviewGovernment aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Risk Management and Corporate Governance

    Edited by Abol Jalilvand, Tassos Malliaris ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    The asymmetry of responsibilities between management and corporate governance both for day-to-day operations and the board’s monthly or quarterly review and evaluation remains an unresolved challenge. Expertise in the area of risk management is a fundamental requirement for effective corporate governance, if not by all, certainly by some board members. This means that along with board committees ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Myth and Measurement

    The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

    by David Card, David Card, Alan B. Krueger, Alan B. Krueger ...
    From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wageDavid Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Valuing Life

    Humanizing the Regulatory State

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    "Clear explanations and concrete examples of how the behavioral orientation in economics can contribute to the world of cost/benefit policy formulation." — ChoiceThe White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States' regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, New York Times–bestselling author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Dream Dying

    The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged

    by Peter D. McClelland, Peter Tobin ...
    Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based upon the best available data. Collectively, this evidence has alarming implications for the economic ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Stakeholder Society

    by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott ...
    A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of equal opportunity by granting every qualifying young adult a citizen’s stake of eighty thousand ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Handbook of Law and Economics

    Edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbooks in Economics
    Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to ... Read more

    $152.99 USD