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In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...
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standard -- 6. Classical liberalism and collectivism in the 20th century -- 7. The political myths and economic realities of … liberalism : past, present and future …
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The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author … argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go …. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can …
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for Fairness in Taxation: Lessons from the Italian School of Public Finance / Luisa Giuriato -- 11. Cooperation …
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Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and … conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented … here as a coherent political and economic position, as distinguished from both modern liberalism and conservatism …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4 …. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation …
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, provide a robust defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern 'civil' society. In the first essay, Douglas … Rasmussen and Douglas Uyl discuss the basic approaches and principles of liberalism in the post-modern age and show how a moral … philosophy can serve to support a political philosophy. They supply a clear, fundamental defence of liberalism in an era which …
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Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and … normative work of the conservative, constitutional political economist. He shows that, unlike modern liberalism, conservatism is … modern liberalism and conservatism will also want to add this title to their library …
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. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, such as how religion, democracy and immigration affect the extent to which societies are …
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In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market
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