by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1966)
<p>“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher <a href=" Proudhon</a> is one of his answers to the titular question of his 1840 treatise, <i>What Is Property?</i> A fervent attack against the established order of capitalism and private property, the publication of <i>What Is Property?</i> almost immediately led to Proudhon’s official prosecution and the revocation of Proudhon’s scholarship by the Academy of Besançon. (Proudhon, an autodidact of humble origins who began his working life as a printer, relied on the scholarship for financial support.) Proudhon evaded the worst of the consequences thanks to the intervention of the economist Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, to whom the second memoir contained in the book is addressed.</p> <p>In this treatise, Proudhon contrasts the legitimate right to <em>possession</em>, in which individuals own the products of their labor and the necessary means of production, and the illegitimate right to <em>property</em>, the absolute right granted to proprietors by civil laws to “use and abuse.” Proudhon examines the implications of the right to property and concludes that, among other things, property is “impossible,” “homicide,” and “the mother of tyranny.” As an alternative to both the proprietary and communist systems of economic organization, Proudhon advances his anarchist economic theory of “mutualism,” in which a socialist society would be organized based on free market exchanges wherein the value of a good or service is determined by the time and expense it has cost the laborer to produce.</p> <p>This edition of <i>What Is Property?</i> was translated in 1876 by Benjamin Tucker, who was a notable advocate of individualist anarchism in his own right in the United States.</p>
Edwin G. Dolan
In the sixties, students drifted away from economics in search of "relevance." Today we do not have to go around telling students that economics is relevant -- our rising enrollments show that they already know it is. Our job now is not to disappoint them. They come to our principles courses with simple, practical concerns and questions. We must be equipped to address those concerns and questions. That is what this book is all about. - Preface.
Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L. Schwartz
" An excellent financial research tool, this celebrated classic focuses on the methods of solving continuous time problems. The two-part treatment covers the calculus of variations and optimal control. In the decades since its initial publication, this text has defined dynamic optimization courses taught to economics and management science students. 1998 edition"--
Lisbet Koerner
"Lisbet Koerner tells the story of one of the most famous naturalists in history, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time his grand and bizarre economic projects: to "teach" tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals.". "Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his nation by growing colonial cash crops in the North. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his day. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Linnaeus will be of interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science."--BOOK JACKET.
James T. McClave, P. George Benson
"Statistics for Business and Economics, 7/e, is the tool students need to help them become informed business decision makers in the twenty-first century. Important statistical ideas and techniques are presented within the context of real-life business situations. The reader is challenged to think critically about problems and to employ one of the many technological tools available - including EXCEL, SPSS, SAS, or Minitab - to reach an informed, well-presented conclusion. Exciting new problem-solving oriented features of the book include: Statistics in Action - boxes in each chapter examine high-profile business, economics, government, and entertainment issues with questions to motivate thought and discussion; Showcases - six extensive, real-business cases present background information and guidelines for performing a statistical analysis using data files contained on the enclosed data disk. The student gains hands-on experience in preparing a professional document to present the results of the analysis and to draw conclusions based on the data; and Internet Lab - six labs instruct the student in retrieving and analyzing raw data downloaded from the Internet."--BOOK JACKET.