Introduction: the genealogy of the economic -- The invention of economic necessity and the political mob -- Life at the limits: scarcity and the economic -- The right to live and the politics of affect -- The return of the political and the cultural critique of economy -- Money and the economic...

"The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa's political elite to anchor the continent's development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental...

Introduction: liberalism and empire in a new key -- Colonial capitalism and the dilemmas of liberalism: framing an inquiry -- In the beginning, all the world was America: John Locke's global theory of property -- Not a partnership in pepper, coffee, calico, or tobacco: Edmund Burke and imperial...

This collection of chapters comprises timely aspects of two rapidly growing bodies of academic research: entrepreneurship and economic freedom. -- Expert editors add to an important field of research, the economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions influence entrepreneurial...

Competition, or the freedom to enter into a market, contributes greatly to the differentiation of human activities and therefore to economic progress. This fascinating book highlights the similarities between human systems at both the micro and macro level, and demonstrates how competition can...