Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher: Von Mises Institute
Keywords: loss, profit
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: B001N3FB02

In 1951, Mises gave an outstanding paper that made the summary case for the price system under capitalistic economic systems. In "Profit and Loss," he explains how cost accounting is the critical institution that ferrets out social waste, ensures that resources are directed to their most highly valued ends, and how entrepreneurs respond to price signals. His presentation is systematic, relentless, logical, and ultimately devastating to the opponents of profit and loss. He explains what it is that entrepreneurs confront in a market economy and how no bureaucratic institution can replicate the

Author: Geoffrey Gilson
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: intimacy, informal
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 26 ?? 2008
eBookDB-ID: ML00260911

A Co-operative Worker-Owner’s Manifesto for improving the business and co-operative performance of Weaver Street Market Co-operative, so that it might better serve its owners, customers and workers.Geoff Gilson is a writer, broadcaster and composer, currently based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.There, he is a Worker-Owner with Weaver Street Market Co-operative, one of the United States’ leading natural food retailing co-operatives.Geoff has a passion for co-operative and other progressive issues, for singing karaoke and playing the drums.You can read the entirety of "Informal Inti

Author: Leonard E. Read
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: free, market, case, peaceful, that’s, anything
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2010-06-01
ISBN-10: 1452854165
ISBN-13: 9781452854168

"My thesis," Leonard Read informs us in this remarkable book, "in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace." Just so. This book is a classic, compelling statement of the political philosophy of libertarianism and statement of the guiding principles of the Foundation for Economic Education. About the Author Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) established the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 and served as its president for the rest of his life. Author of 29 books and hundreds of articles-including

Author: Mark V. Pauly
Publisher: Hoover Institution Pre
Keywords: health, hoover, inst, press, publication, insurance, work, reform, effects, making, markets, individual
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2010-04-15
ISBN-10: 0817910441
ISBN-13: 9780817910440

Health reform designs from the current administration and from Congress propose some dramatic and far-reaching changes and alternatives to the current system. Are these new models the best, or are there other alternatives better matched to actual needs and with fewer adverse side effects? Can the current individual market serve as a foundation for reform, or must it be swept away in a root-and-branch change and replaced with something entirely new? In Health Reform without Side Effects, Mark V. Pauly offers a detailed look at the individual insurance market in the United States. He explains h

Author: UK Trade & Investment China Markets Unit
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: guide, business, china
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2009-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB418687

China is THE great economicsuccess story of the past30 years. Since the “reformand opening-up” policywas introduced in 1978,China has changed beyondrecognition. A Soviet-styledplanned economy hastransformed into a vibrantmarket-oriented economyand 400 million people havebeen lifted out of poverty.Well known for itsmanufacturing capability,China is the largest globalproducer of toys, textiles,washing machines,cameras and computers(among hundreds of otherproducts). It is also theworld’s largest consumerof iron, steel, coal andcement, and China’shunger for raw materialscon

Author: Walter Block
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: undefendable, defending
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-10: 1933550171
ISBN-13: 9781933550176

Professor Block’s book is in a new edition from the Mises Institute, completely reset and beautifully laid out in an edition worthy of its contents. It is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs. Murray Rothbard explains why: "Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting, the fullest

Authors:Lloyd Dixon, Robert J. Lempert, Tom LaTourrette,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: terrorism, insurance, interim, results, market, interventions, offs, among, alternative, government, trade
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 083304186X
ISBN-13: 9780833041869

This documented briefing presents interim findings from a RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy project that aims to inform the debate over extending the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA), as modified in 2005. The study uses analytic tools for identifying and assessing key trade-offs among strategies under conditions with considerable uncertainty to assess three alternative government interventions in the market for terrorism insurance: TRIA; no government terrorism insurance program; and extending TRIA without other changes in the program to required insurers to offer cov