INTRODUCTIONThe role of media in any society is vital and is closely related to brands and consumption especially in a vibrant 21st century Asian city. Hong Kong with its free-market economy and urban
Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F.
The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts
The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts
Reveals how the political and economic philosophy of Ayn Rand may offer solutions to systemic problems in government, making recommendations for such areas as unemployment benefits, housing policies,
Father Robert Sirico shows how a free economy is the best way to meet society's material needs, as well as to protect the freedoms we cherish. As our most basic rights are threatened by increasingly i
Taking “free markets” from rhetoric to realityFor three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater de
Adjibolosoo (business, Point Loma Nazarene University) presents theory and empirical evidence on the essential role of the human factor in free market efficiency and economic progress. The human facto
America is hurtling toward socialism. What should free market capitalists do with their money? Barack Obama is aggressively pushing the American economy toward socialism. Maybe he will succeed, may
Examines the causes of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and argues that capitalism and a free-market economy are the best means of ensuring innovation and a secure financial future for the world's ec
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. Contrary to popular narratives, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining free markets. But in the eighteenth century, thinkers insisted on free markets without state intervention, leading to a tradition of ideological brittleness. That tradition only calcified in the centuries that followed.Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand it―and to develop new economic concepts to face today’s challe
In this clear and accessible book, an eminent political scientist offers a jargon-free introduction to the market system for all readers, with or without a background in economics.
