There is intense public interest in the role of universities as a source of science-based innovations. To increase our understanding of this role, this book compares the economic effects of university research in the United States and Japan–countries similar in economic and technological capabilities but different in culture, tradition, and institutional structure. Incorporating historical, sociological, …

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Bohm-Bawerk individual essays have been combined in Shorter Classics. This volume represents his expansion, examination, and improvement of his system. It includes the famous essay on “Karl Marx and the Close of his System,” which undoubtedly is the best-known critique of Marx ever written, and four other sagacious essays: “The Austrian Economists” “Whether Legal Rights …

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(Publication Date: 1991) Hanke, profesor de la Universidad John Hopkins de Baltimore y Schuler, dedicado a temas monetarios en la UniversidadGeorge Mason, proponen para Argentina el reemplazo del Banco Central por una caja de conversión que mantiene el tipo de cambio fijo. Prólogo: Vivanco.

This book pays tribute to the late Irving Fisher by discussing a range of issues on which he worked throughout his life. It serves as an excellent introduction to the contributions of one of the great economists spanning the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The book begins with an overview of Irving Fisher’s life including …

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  ”For the armies of American office workers, Dilbert is a reminder that they are not alone.” —Chicago Tribune   ”Cruel and incompetent bosses, plus the pervasive stupidity of people Adams calls ‘in-duh-viduals,’ are favorite targets in the strip, which appears…on the Internet, in best-selling books, and on refrigerator magnets, coffee mugs, desk calendars, software, neckties, and …

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