This book introduces us to his life story which is equally as fascinating as that of other who make a political virtue of their humble origins. In ...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

This book begins with an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. It provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essentia...

The federal budget is the primary policy statement of the President's fiscal priorities and proposals for allocating expenditures and taxes. The bu...

This new book presents an overview of trade in financial services by the United States. It delineates the framework of US foreign trade in financia...

On 31 July 2003, the Senate and, on July 24, the House passed H.R.2739 (United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act) which is t...

As the world's leading market for electronic products, the United States generates large quantities of used electronic products (UEPs) each year. U...

Public utilities constitute a large section of Europe' economy, and they have historically been at the centre of national states and their industri...

Uzbekistan gained independence at the end of 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union. The landlocked country is a potential Central Asian regiona...

The theory of value is probably the most disputed feature of Marx’ political economy, while mostly another problem – namely the issue of transforma...

Long-term fiscal problems, which were exacerbated by the recession that ended in June 2009, resulted in widespread concern about the need to formul...

This book profiles Venezuela with a focus foreign relations and human rights issues. Under the rule of populist President Hugo Chavez, first electe...

While historically the United States has had close relations with Venezuela, a major oil supplier, friction in bilateral relations rose under the l...

The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 5th 2013 after 14 years of populist rule, has implications not only for Venezuela’s politica...

This book provides current research on the social, economic and environmental issues in Venezuela. Chapter One reviews the patrimonial state under ...

Excessive consumption of calories, too much fat, and too little fibre in western regions such as Latin America have caused a range of twentieth-cen...

In July 2015, multilateral talks with Iran culminated in an agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), through which Iran com...

This book provides an overview and examination of the Vietnamese services sector. Vietnam is growing rapidly as it transitions from a state-planned...

Gordon Tullock is among a small group of living legends in the field of political economics. This volume provides an entree to the mind of an origi...

This book presents current information on virtual currency and the bitcoin revolution. It provides several statements and testimonies from hearings...

Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of E...

This book focuses on voting practices, election reform and local election officials who are critical to the administration of federal elections and...

This book provides details about new and exciting ways of administering elections so that each jurisdiction can chart the future of its own system ...

In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the mi...

This book examines wage earnings from 1975 through to 2009 with a focus on real earnings, health insurance, pension coverage, and the distribution ...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the United States in many ways. For the American Armed Forces, the human toll has been profound: as of 2...

On 16 September 2013, Aaron Alexis, a Navy contractor employee with a Secret security clearance, shot and killed 12 U.S. Navy civilian and contract...

Wasted Talent is a call to action against a system that has failed workers for too long. The future of work was supposed to be about more innovatio...

This unique book offers an introduction to the development of renewable energy in Australia in the early 2000s. Examining the rise of dispersed, em...

"We gambled everything-our careers, our fortunes, the future of our nation-and every day brought new discoveries. It was like living on a frontier....

Voting is fundamental to our democracy, yet many U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote do not take advantage of their constitutional right to vote...

Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine allocative efficiency within an economy a...

Volume 6 of "The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon" examines the failure of state-supported welfare programs to benefit the people most in need of h...

Accurately determining how much of our economy's total production is American-made can be a daunting task. However, data from the Commerce Departme...

What / Who are we After the Transition? is not only an expression fit for a book title, but also a tense issue whose rational solutions are slow in...

Retirement in America is still possible but becoming less a widespread reality given the economic crisis strangling the country. This book looks at...

Whistleblowing is "the act of reporting waste, fraud, abuse and corruption in a lawful manner to those who can correct the wrongdoing." Safeguardin...

How can the G20 fulfill their role most efficiently in the post-crisis era, and what role do the emerging economies play in the new global economic...

It is often argued that land registration is the answer to insecurity of real estate ownership in sub-Saharan Africa. This argument is based on the...

Win-Win Anti-Poverty Policy - Handbook of Win-Win Economics, Volume 3