Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Adam Smith, Workers’ Rights and the Political Side of the Market -- Chapter 3. Monopoly versus Monopoly -- Chapter 4. Against the Current -- Chapter 5. Who's Afraid of Giants?.

This book will trace the trajectory of the surprising idea that the victims of monopolistic conspiracies should be allowed to fight back using the same fraudulent and immoral weapons as the conspirators. In other words, if left to itself, the market will produce the antibodies necessary to...

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world-the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking to...

Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa: der Neoliberalismus. Der „Neoliberalismus“ ist zu einem meist negativ konnotierten Schlagwort verkommen. Dieses Buch möchte einen Beitrag zur Versachlichung der Debatte leisten und die geistes- und zeitgeschichtlichen Ursprünge des Neoliberalismus erhellen....

Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin...

Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself--not by government--led, via an invisible hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole. The Hesitant Hand examines how subsequent economic...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The war before the war: Limiting the New Deal, 1933-39 -- Chapter 3: Making the most of mobilization, 1939-41 -- Chapter 4: Life on the Periphery, 1941-43 -- Chapter 5: Coming in from the cold: post-war visions crystalize, 1944-45 -- Chapter 6: From strength...