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Escaping Paternalism
A powerful critique of nudge theory and the paternalist policies of behavioral economics, and an argument for a more inclusive form of rationality.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SEWER KING
The Rise and Fall of the Sewer King A crime drama depicting the activities of a crime syndicate in Northern New Jesey. Ciro Brigante, a young man brought up in the sewers of Palermo Sicily becomes king of the street urchins who live underground in the sewers of Palermo. Coming to America he joins an Italian criminal gang in Northern New Jersey (a Mafia strong-hold in the United States). Ciro rises to dominance as a Capo. His rise and fall depicts the tragedy of a life of crime.
Austrian Economics Re-examined
Austrian Economics Re-examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance is an expanded version of the 1996 edition of The Economics of Time and Ignorance. This work is a classic statement of the role of subjectivism, radical uncertainty and change through real time in Austrian economics specifically, and in modern economics more generally. The new book contains the full text and Introductions of the earlier edition as well as the comprehensive previously-unpublished essay "What is Austrian Economics?" and a new Introduction. The essay is a comprehensive overview of the central themes of the book from a somewhat different perspective than in the book itself. It supplements the analysis in the boo...
The Collapse of Development Planning
Addresses one of the most pressing issues of international political economy Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. Yet, after decades of international aid programs, development planning is today largely perceived as a failure paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and inefficiency. Despite billions of dollars of investment, development successes are few and far between and waste and mismanagement abounds. This book showcases a diverse range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire. Case studies of development planning in China, India, post-WWII Japan, South ...
Mindset
Mindset is fine regional fiction by first time novelist Enrico Bostone. In the tradition of Dune author Frank Herbert, Bostone carries the reader along on both the science fiction and human interest levels. Bostone's hero, Mario Rizzo, is a man both tough and tender. Meet both these remarkable men in the remarkable...Mindset.Synopsis: It's 650 years in the future and everyone is subject to a brainwashing, personality-conforming mental indoctrination that keeps the people of post-apocolypse Wisconsin inline and doing their duty. Everyone except Mario Rizzo who has traveled through time from 1999. Rizzo finds himself in a fight for his identity And his life. Genuine help comes in the form of the beautiful Resa, a Mindset woman whose mind isn't all that set. Join Mario and Resa as they change their world and get a second chance at life.
Methodology and Economics
The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania.
Vengeance
Reeling from grief over the vicious murder of her husband, Charley Howard makes a decision which will probably cost her life. Regardless of the danger, she is determined to make the killer suffer. Little does she know the killer is one step ahead, and has already made arrangements to have her killed too. With only her grit, passion and determination, she must battle the vicious head of the biggest crime syndicate in Nashville's history. She knows she cannot outmuscle him, but maybe, she can outsmart him. Unless he kills her first. The tense drama between the naive but determined widow and the powerful killer unfolds over three months, until the final moments when the choice for both becomes … kill or be killed.
Renaissance Mass Murder
Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and harmony usually associated with the Renaissance, it uncovers in forensic detail a world in which sacks of Italian cities and massacres of civilians at the hands of French, German, Spanish, Swiss, and Italian troops were regular occurrences. The arguments presented are based on a wealth of evidence - histories and chronicles, poetry and paintings, sculpture and other objects - which together provide a new and startling history of sixteenth-century Italy and a social history of the Italian Wars. It outlines how massacres happened, how princes, soldie...
