This volume inquires about the consequences of the increased entry of government into economic activity. The contributors, including Armen Alchian, William A. Niskanen, James M. Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock, are concerned with dangers to the institutions of private property, with profit incentives, and with social interaction guided by principles of self-interest and open-market competition. Contributions are divided into three parts: economic problems, governmental policies, and the modern corporation and its critics. Topics include public attitudes toward free enterprise; inflation;...
This volume inquires about the consequences of the increased entry of government into economic activity. The contributors, including Armen Alchian, Wi...
The Market-Planned Economy of Yugoslavia was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The Yugoslavian economic system, combining, as it does, elements of Marxist socialism with many aspects of free enterprise, represents a challenging experiment which is being closely watched by students of economic and political theory. The system has attracted serious attention in the emerging nations of Asia and...
The Market-Planned Economy of Yugoslavia was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unava...
In the late 1980s, the field of comparative economics and NATO faced a similar problem: the threat of obsolescence. A predictable reaction of those who had made major investments in both comparative economics and NATO was to look for a new job. It was time to say: comparative economic systems are dead, long live comparative economic systems. The purpose of this book is to redirect study of what we called comparative economic systems toward analysis of the development of institutions and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic performance. To that end, the book...
In the late 1980s, the field of comparative economics and NATO faced a similar problem: the threat of obsolescence. A predictable reaction of those wh...
