A Not-so-dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies by Olson, Mancur [Editor]; Kähkönen, Satu [Editor];

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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… Read More

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book shows that, in calling economics the `dismal science', Thomas Carlyle was profoundly wrong. Economic ideas have illuminated behaviour in all of the social sciences in addition to the economists' traditional domain. The broaden