Labyrinths of Prosperity
Labyrinths of Prosperity

Author: Reuven Brenner

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780472065561

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Argues that macroeconomic management of the economy leads nations into decline

Competition and Finance
Competition and Finance

Author: Kevin Dowd

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-09-04

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1349248568

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Competition and Finance offers a new, unified treatment of the fields of financial and monetary economics. The first part integrates recent developments in agency theory and information economics into a unified financial theory of the firm. A review of recent developments in the economics of banking and then monetary economics leads to a conclusion assessing present-day systems of central banking and proposing financial and monetary reform.

Betting on Ideas
Betting on Ideas

Author: Reuven Brenner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-07-10

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780226074016

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In this book, Reuven Brenner argues that people bet on new ideas and are more willing to take risks when they have been outdone by their fellows on local, national, or international scales. Such bets mean that people deviate from the beaten path and either gamble, commit crimes, or come up with new ideas in art, business, or politics, and ideas concerning war and peace in particular. By using evidence on gambling, crime, and creativity now and during the Industrial Revolution, by examining innovations in English and French inheritance laws and the emergence of welfare legislation, and by looking at what has happened before and after wars, Brenner reaches the conclusion that hope and fear, envy and vanity, sentiments provoked when being leapfrogged, make humans race.