Offers an unconventional argument in favor of market monopolies. This book claims that conventional, static models exaggerate the harm done by real-world monopolies, and shows why some degree of monopoly presence is necessary to maximize the improvement of human welfare over time.

This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms in nine OECD countries.

These lecture notes comprize a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois.

A provocative book of essays edited by one of America's most respected essayists on the most interesting idea of the moment by the most successful businessman of the late 20th century: Mike Kinsley on Bill Gates' idea of how to reinvent capitalism.

Includes coverage of the USA, with case studies examining the role of huge American corporations such as Wal-Mart and General Electric. This title looks at China and the global impact this economic giant may have in the 21st century.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal

Offers an introduction to two topics: inflation and government interventionism. This book argues that the solution to government intervention is free markets and free enterprise, which call for reforming government.

What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This work outlines an approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies.

Political developments have created potentially favourable conditions for the expansion of trade and inflow of foreign investment to North Korea. This book addresses the issue of the development potential of the North Korean economy and the compatibility of economic reform with political stability.

Turning his attention to the United States, Stiglitz argues that much of what we understood about the free-market prosperity of the 1990s is wrong and that it actually laid the foundations for the economic problems we face today.

Over the 1980s and 1990s most Latin American countries witnessed a retrenchment of the public sector from infrastructure provision and an opening up of infrastruture activities to the private sector. This book analyses the consequences of these policy changes.

This book uses economics, anthropology, statistics, and history to examine industrial, agricultural and foraging societies.