1. Living In Truth -- 2. After The Fall -- 3. The Medium Is (Still) The Message -- 4. What Do You Expect? -- 5. Possibilities, Probabilities and Propensities -- 6. The Best And The Brightest -- 7. Bretton Woods Revisited -- 8. Selling England By The Pound -- 9. Tomorrow Without Fear -- 10. Out...

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...

“Donald Stabile provides a fascinating history of the economic and political debates leading up to, and following, the Employment Act of 1946. Contrary to common understanding, Stabile argues that there were strong tensions between New Dealers and Keynesians, including around their vision of...

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.” - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA "The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine...

1. The Benefits and Perils of Globalization -- 2. Key Markers in the Global Integration of the US Economy -- 3. Trade Globalization and the US Economy -- 4. The Special Role of the United States in the Global Financial System -- 5. The United States as a Major Destination for Migratory Flows --...

1. Introduction -- 2. Debt Is the Price of Liberty -- 3. Bounded by War -- 4. Building a Visible Government -- 5. The End of Balanced Budgets -- 6. In Pursuit of Full Employment -- 7. A New Era of Congressional Budgeting -- 8. Breaking up the Budget Process

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it?...

Chapter 1 Introducing Pandemic Crisis -- Chapter 2 Migration and Welfare-State Policy -- Chapter 3 Globalization and Welfare-State Policy -- Chapter 4 Free Migration: Israel’s Experience -- Chapter 5 Globalization: Israel’s Experience -- Chapter 6 Federal Systems: US-EU Comparison.

ACCOUNTING/AUDIT -- Insights from Lobbying Research on the Accounting Standard-Setting Process through Comment Letter Submissions -- The Bulgarian Life Insurance Sector – Review and Analysis of Investment -- Measures to Assess the Payment Behavior of The Portuguese Subnational Governments --...