The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warns that until the US learns to reconnect research and development with production, foreign companies will continue to prevail in the world marketplace.

In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1976, Friedrich von Hayek argues that the government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop recurring bouts of inflation and deflation. Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed to ‘capitalism’.

Investigations Into the Method of the Social Sciences analyzes the nature of political economy, its subdivisions, its truths, and the goals of research in the field. He concludes that political economy, “theoretical economics, economic policy, and the science of finance” is a theoretical- political science and not a “historical” science. Menger also illuminates the origin …

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This book contains the following chapters: Privatization in the developing world The foundations of privatization Planning for privatization Privatization for development Cases of privatization Conclusion

18 Audiocassettes/27 Hours of listening time. The Great Economic Thinkers is a collection of cassette presentations that explain, in understandable language, the major ideas of history’s most important economists. Special emphasis is placed on each thinker’s attitude toward capitalism, revealing their influence in today’s debate on economic progress and prosperity. 1) MONETARISM & SUPPLY SIDE …

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Marc Faber’s contrarian approach to investment does not always find favour with the typical client. And his pessimistic but accurate prediction of the 1987 crash justified the nickname, Dr. Doom. In The Great Money Illusion Marc Faber analyses the financial ups and downs of the last forty years. From Switzerland to London, New York to …

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