<DIV>For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As <I>A...</i></div>

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and a rise in fiscal deficits linked to increased...

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to come. <I>Founding Choices</I> explores these economic...</i>

<DIV>New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for...</div>

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings...

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government’s definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects, resulting in poor educational, labor...

<DIV>Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek’s career, the writings collected in <I>Capital and Interest</I> see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as <I>Prices and Production</I> and work toward the technically sophisticated line of thought seen in his later...</i></i></i></div>

<DIV>Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek’s career, the writings collected in <I>Capital and Interest</I> see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as <I>Prices and Production</I> and work toward the technically sophisticated line of thought seen in his later...</i></i></i></div>

<DIV>Most discussions of the global financial crisis take the United States as their focus, both for analyzing what went wrong and for making plans to avoid similar mistakes in the future. But that may not be the case next time: as Minq Li argues convincingly in <I>China and the Twenty-first-Century...</i></div>

<DIV>In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove...</div>