For years, The Economics of Public Issues has shown students the power of economics in explaining the world around us. The thirteenth edition continues the tradition of illustrating traditional economic principles through contemporary issues by offering ten all-new chapters on compelling topics such as the costs of terrorism, deregulation of energy in California, and the Internet economy. The authors' clear presentation and straightforward applications make the study of economics entertaining and informative. The Economics of Public Issues is an essential source of engaging, relevant readings for a principles of economics course, and an excellent way to spark independent thinking and classroom discussions in political economy, public policy, and social issues courses.

The Economics of Public Issues

Business & Money

Douglass C. North

Roger, LeRoy, Miller

Economics

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Economics of Public Issues is a collection of brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking.

The Economics of Public Issues, 8th Edition

Daniel K. Benjamin

Religion & Spirituality

A superb supplement to economic learning, The Economics of Public Issues features short chapters that provide application of economics to current issues in everyday life. The authors examine the principles of economic analysis; supply and demand; market structures; and labor and human capital, to contemporary issues such as "killer airbags", bankrupt landlords, merger mania, and the effects of the minimum wage. Now in its Eleventh Edition, this always-topical text continues to inform and elucidate.

The economics of public issues

Harper&Row

Douglas C North is a Nobel winning economist and a fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. His economic history of the United States takes a unique slant on the country's development. While acknowledging the idea that America was in part transformed by a combination of dirt farmers, slave labor and greed, North's theory is that the government investment made the difference. In North's opinion, the development of the highway infrastructure, the electric grid, water management and agricultural research has had more effect on the development of the country any of the myths and legends that Hollywood could devise. While not the latest version of this idea, it is the first and is still very valid.

Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History

PRENTICE/HALL

Pearson College Div

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change.
At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources.
In six theoretical chapters, Professor North examines the structure of economic systems, outlines an economic theory of the state and the ideologies that undergird various modes of economic organization, and then explores the dynamic forces such as new technologies that cause institutions to adapt in order to survive. With this analytical framework in place, major phases in Western history come under careful reappraisal, from the origins of agriculture and the neolithic revolution through the political economy of the ancient and medieval worlds to the industrial revolution and the economic transformations of the twentieth century.
Structure and Change in Economic History is a work that will reshape many established explanations of the growth of the west.

Structure and change in economic history

History

Norton

Structure and Change in Economic History

W.W.Norton&Company

Two articles on Robert W Fogel and and two articles on Douglass W North.

Two Pioneers of Cliometrics: Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North

Robert W. Vogel

Cliometric Society

Institutions of Democracy & Development (A Sequoia Seminar)

Elinor Ostrom

Deepak Lal

Samuel L. Popkin

Edwin G. Corr

Victor Tomseth

Institute for Contemporary Studies

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