This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...

Introduction (Matthew McManus) -- Part 1: Law and Rights in Contemporary Liberalism and Socialism -- Chapter 2. What Does It Mean To Say All Are Created Equal?: Liberalism And Socialism On Basic Rights (Matthew McManus) -- Chapter 3. The Identity Thesis, Basic Structure, and Constitutional...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Capital -- Chapter 3. Credit -- Chapter 4. The Category of Capitalisation -- Chapter 5. Fictitious Capital -- Chapter 6. Speculative Capital -- Chapter 7. Private Banks -- Chapter 8. The Financial System and the State -- Chapter 9. Capital and the World...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Adam Smith, Workers’ Rights and the Political Side of the Market -- Chapter 3. Monopoly versus Monopoly -- Chapter 4. Against the Current -- Chapter 5. Who's Afraid of Giants?.

Chapter 1 What Could Be the Contents of Adam Smith’s Third Book -- Chapter 2 The Contributions and Deficiencies of Keynesian Economics -- Chapter 3 Scarcity and Generation of Resources -- Chapter 4 The Dual Attributes of Government -- Chapter 5 Regional Government Competition -- Chapter 6...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before Capitalism -- Chapter 3. The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of “Economic Man” -- Chapter 4. The Age of Enlightenment: 1585-1789 -- Chapter 5. Money as Wealth -- Chapter 6. Money as a Medium of Exchange -- Chapter 7. Credit and Banking --...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The war before the war: Limiting the New Deal, 1933-39 -- Chapter 3: Making the most of mobilization, 1939-41 -- Chapter 4: Life on the Periphery, 1941-43 -- Chapter 5: Coming in from the cold: post-war visions crystalize, 1944-45 -- Chapter 6: From strength...

Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction -- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion -- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE -- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of...

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law. The overall study consists of three parts. Part I (Chapters 1-8) introduces...

Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft war nach dem 2. Weltkrieg die Grundlage für den Wirtschaftsaufschwung und das Wirtschaftswunder in Deutschland. Sie ist heute als Wirtschaftsmodell weltweit anerkannt und erfolgreich. 70 Jahre später ist die Welt jedoch eine andere. Globalisierung, Digitalisierung,...