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Basic Political Writings
by Jean Rousseau
This is an more affordable version than most and the translation is very adequate. This edition may be of particular interest to those teachers wishing to cover Rousseau's less read work on Political Economy.
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The constitution of liberty
by Friedrich A. Hayek
In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle…
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
- Justice and Economic Distribution
- The Economic History of Latin America since Independence by Victor Bulmer
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Latin America and the World Economy since 1800
by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor
Economic and institutional trajectories in nineteenth-century Latin America / John H. Coatsworth -- Property rights and land conflict: a comparison of settlement of the US Wester and Brazilian Amazon frontiers / Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller…
- Economic Reform in Latin America by Harry Costin and Hector Vanolli
- The Essential Communitarian Reader by Amitai Etzioni
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The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development
by Patrice Franko
Development in Latin America: conceptualizing economic change in the region -- Historical legacies: patterns of unequal and unstable growth -- Import substitution industrialization: looking inward for the source of economic growth -- Latin America's debt crisis: the limits of external…
- Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy by Jeffry Frieden, Manuel Pastor and Michael Tomz
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
- The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
by Henry George
To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state, and would strive for its attainment. -Henry George, Progress and Poverty Why do we…
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After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America
by Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson
Setting the stage / Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski -- Reforming the state / Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski -- Bootstraps, not band-aids / Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Szekely -- A fiscal policy agenda / Daniel Artana, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, and Fernanco Navajas -- The financial…
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Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting…
- To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution by Robert A. McGuire
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
- Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff by Arthur M. Okun
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I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society
by Robert B. Reich
From the former Secretary of Labor, a plan to get the economy to work for everyone. With his characteristic humor, humanity, and candor, one of the nation"s most distinguished public leaders and thinkers delivers a fresh vision of politics by…
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Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers
by Javier Santiso
Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ideologies…
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century
by Rosemary Thorp
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years? Per capita income increased fivefold, yet today it is lower in proportion to the industrial countries than it was a century ago. Modern infrastructure was built…
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Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny
by Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler
The rapid spread of the liberal market economy throughout the world poses a host of new and complex questions for the consideration of religious believers, as well as anyone concerned with the intersection of ethics and economics. Is the liberal…
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Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—And Why They Disappeared
by Allan C. Carlson
Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great…
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The "American Way": Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity
by Allan C. Carlson
The United States of America is arguably more family-centered than any other Western nation. If polling data can be trusted, the vast majority of Americans-a higher percentage than in any other nation-would rather build society around the family and the…
- Economic Strategies and Policies in Latin America by Jorge I. Dominguez
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Human Goods, Economic Evils: A Moral Approach to the Dismal Science
by Edward Hadas
Much of modern economic theory is based on a rather unflattering view of human nature, one that is essentially selfish and materialistic. Not surprisingly, this incomplete version of human anthropology makes for some rather incomplete economic theory, argues Edward Hadas…
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A Student's Guide to Economics
by Paul Heyne
Paul Heyne, one of the nation's best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society-a realization essential to a proper understanding of the…
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Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics
by Israel M. Kirzner
The work of Ludwig von Mises exercised enormous influence upon the thought of libertarians, classical liberals, anticommunists, and even traditionalist conservatives during the postwar years. But, as Israel Kirzner shows in the second installment in our Library of Modern Thinkers…
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Redeeming Economics: Free Markets and the Human Person
by John Mueller
Our best economist thus far has been Augustine. This, in effect, is the argument of John D. Mueller's contrarian and groundbreaking Redeeming Economics, which posits that economic theory has since Adam Smith mistakenly discarded from its analyses basic elements of…
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Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
by Joseph Pearce
A third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Since then, millions of copies of Schumacher's work have been sold in dozens of different…
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A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
by Wilhelm Roepke, translated by Elizabeth Henderson and Dermot Quinn
An introduction to economic thinking which holds that the vital things in life are those beyond supply and demand, written by the chief architect of Germany's post-war social market economy. A Humane Economy offers an understandable and compelling explanation of…
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Liberalism and Its Critics
by Michael Sandel
Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship…
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The Literary Book of Economics: Including Readings from Literature and Drama on Economic Concepts, Issues, and Themes
by Michael Watts
The Literary Book of Economics is one of the most innovative approaches to economic education and literacy ever published. As empirical research has demonstrated, economics is taught more effectively when integrated into other fields, and is perhaps particularly effective when…
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A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values
by Adam K. Webb
A Path of Our Own tells the story of Pomatambo, a village in one of the poorest parts of Peru's highlands. Adam Webb brings to life the experiences of three generations of these humble peasants as they have been…
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Wilhelm Röpke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist
by John Zmirak
John Zmirak's introduction to the life and work of Wilhelm Röpke, written with the touch of an accomplished writer and journalist, weaves an analysis of Röpke's economic and social philosophy around the story of the momentous events in which Röpke…