A not-so-dismal science : a broader view of economies and societies / edited by Mancur Olson and Satu K�hk�ne
by Olson, Mancur
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- ISBN 10
- 0198293690
- ISBN 13
- 9780198293699
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About This Item
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 274 pp., ill. Contents; 1 Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk; Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor; 2 Innovation and its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia; 3 Economic Institutions and Development: A View from the Bottom; 4 Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development; 5 Overstrong Against Thyself: War, the State, and Growth in Eyrope on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution; 6 The Swedish Model: A Comment on Mancur Olson's Analysis. 7 Affirmative Action and Reservations in the American and Indian Labor Markets: Are They Realty That Bad?8 Communities and Development: Autarkic Social Groups and the Economy; 9 Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms; 10 The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development; Index. Subjects; Economics Philosophy. Economics Sociological aspects. Institutional economics.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
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- Title
- A not-so-dismal science : a broader view of economies and societies / edited by Mancur Olson and Satu K�hk�ne
- Author
- Olson, Mancur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198293690
- ISBN 13
- 9780198293699
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York And Oxford
- Date Published
- 2000
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