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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Prosperity Undermined Through The Explosion Of ...Laws, Regulations, Agencies, And Spending In Washington, And How Good Intentions Often Produce Deplorable Results When Government Is The Middleman. The Friedmans Also Provide Remedies For These Ills--they Tell Us What To Do In Order To Expand Our Freedom And Promote Prosperity. The International Bestseller On The Extent To Which Personal Freedom Has Been Eroded By Government Regulations And Agencies While Personal Prosperity Has Been Undermined By Government Spending And Economic Controls. New Foreword By The Authors Index. Foreword To The Harvest Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Power Of The Market --- Tyranny Of Controls --- Anatomy Of Crisis --- Cradle To Grave --- Created Equal --- What's Wrong With Our Schools? --- Who Protects The Consumer? --- Who Protects The Worker? --- Cure For Inflation --- Tide Is Turning -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index. Milton & Rose Friedman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 315-326) And Index.

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Milton Friedman

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The Library Book

Whether Brand New Or Steeped In History, Real Or Imagined, Libraries Feature In Everyone's Lives. In Memoirs, Essays And Stories That Are Funny, Moving, Visionary Or Insightful, Twenty-three Famous Wr...iters Celebrate These Places Where Minds Open And The World Expands. Public Libraries Are Lifelines, To Practical Information As Well As To The Imagination, But Funding Is Under Threat All Over The Country. This Book Is Published In Support Of Libraries, With All Royalties Going To The Reading Agency's Library Programmes. This Place Will Lend You Books For Free / James Brown -- Character Building / Anita Anand -- The Defence Of The Book / Julian Barnes -- The Punk And Langside Library / Hardeep Singh Kohli -- The Rules / Lucy Mangan -- Baffled At A Bookcase / Alan Bennett -- The Future Of The Library / Seth Godin -- Going To The Dogs / Val Mcdermid -- I [heart] Libraries / Lionel Shriver -- Have You Heard Of Oscar Wilde? / Stephen Fry -- The Secret Life Of Libraries / Bella Bathurst -- The Booksteps / China Miéville -- Alma Mater / Caitlin Moran -- The Library Of Babylon / Tom Holland -- A Corner Of St James's / Susan Hill -- It Takes A Library-- / Michael Brooks -- The Magic Threshold / Bali Rai -- Libraries Rock! / Ann Cleeves -- The Five-minute Rule / Julie Myerson -- If You Tolerate This-- / Nicky Wire -- Library Life / Zadie Smith -- The Lending Library / Kate Mosse -- Fight For Libraries As You Do Freedom / Karin Slaughter -- Afterword : The Reading Agency / Miranda Mckearney.

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Rebecca Gray

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The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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Sam Atkinson

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Public Opinion

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Walter Lippmann

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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

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Deborah Stone

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Microeconomics

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Robert S. Pindyck

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Politics

politics Is A New Kind Of Politics Textbook. Stimulating, Succinct And Accessible, It Offers A Truly Comprehensive Introduction To The Study Of Politics, Written From An International Perspective. Thi...s Second Edition Takes Full Account Of New Developments Such As Debates About Globalization, The Impact Of The Mass Media, And The Shift From Government To Governance. It Also Includes New Boxed Material On Major Thinkers And Key Concepts.

Author:

Andrew Heywood

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Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Aspen Treatise Series)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Principles and Policies continues to serve as an incomparably clear introduction to both doctrine and policy in its Third Edition. This highly successful student treatise offer...s distinct advantages: thorough treatment of all areas

Author:

Erwin Chemerinsky

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Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)

First published in 1984, this explanation of the policy-making process in the United States described agenda setting as the ability to define "the list of subjects to which government officials and th...ose around them are paying serious attention." Kingdon (U. of Michigan) identifies three streams that impact agendas—problems, policies, and politics—and describes their interactions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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John W. Kingdon

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Books That Changed the World

From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informati...ve discussion of many of the most important works ever created.

Author:

Robert B. Downs

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