The Best Free Enterprise Books 2024

1. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - A renowned economist's classic book on capitalism in the developing world, showing how property rights are the key to overcoming poverty The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph, writes Hernando de Soto, is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis. In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up one of the most pressing questions the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail? In strong opposition to the popular view that success is determined by cultural differences, de Soto finds that it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly extralegal property arrangements, such as squatting on large estates, to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth. This persuasive book revolutionized our understanding of capital and points the way to a major transformation of the world economy.

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are neither magical nor immoral. Rather, they are powerful if imperfect tools, the best we've found for improving our living standards.A New York Times Notable Book.

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. It's Good Business: Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millennium [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Robert C. Solomon takes a hard look at the treacherous terrain of ethical decision-making in a highly competitive environment.

It's Good Business : Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millenium, Used [Paperback]

4. Free Enterprise Economics in America: Economic System, Political System, View of Man, View of God [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Free Enterprise Economics in America: Economic System, Political System, View of Man, View of God by Tom Rose

Free Enterprise Economics in America: Economic System, Political System, View of Man, View of God [Paperback - Used]

5. The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In the wake of the collapse of communism, we hear much about the victory of the 'market system'. Just what is the market system? This clear and accessible book begins by answering this question, then goes on to explain how the market system works and what it can and cannot do. Charles E. Lindblom, writing in nontechnical language for a wide general audience, offers an evenhanded view of the market system. His analysis of the great questions that surround the market system is sometimes unexpected, always illuminating: Is the market system efficient? Is it democratic? Does it despoil the environment? Does it perpetuate inequalities? Does it debase personality and culture? Big choices are yet to be made about the future of the market system, observes Lindblom. He outlines what these choices are and how they will affect not only our economic well-being but also our social and political lives. For market systems organise or coordinate more than just the flow of commodities, he shows. They influence human behaviour in all its dimensions.

The Market System : What It Is, How It Works and What to Make of It, Used [Hardcover]

6. Internal Markets: Bringing the Power of Free Enterprise Inside Your Organization, Used [Hardcover]

Demonstrates how to design an organization for the 90s using a model to create the entrepreneurial company and provides an effective response to reshaping a business. Describes how to break up the bureaucracy and make a company work more productively by bringing the logic of the market system and free enterprise into the organization. Case studies from MCI, Control Data, Esso and Alcoa illustrate successful management practice.

Internal Markets : Bringing the Power of Free Enterprise Inside Your Organization, Used [Hardcover]

7. Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Is economic liberty necessary for individuals to lead truly flourishing lives? Whether your immediate answer is yes or no, this question is deceptively simple. What do we mean by liberty? What constitutes the flourishing life? How are these related? How is economic liberty related to other goods that affect human flourishing? To answer these questions--and more--this volume brings to bear some of history's greatest thinkers, interpreted by some of today's leading scholars of their thought. How might Aristotle have understood the relationship between economic liberty and human flourishing? Hobbes and Locke, Mill, Rousseau, Burke, Adam Smith, Kant, de Tocqueville, and Marx? So much of the policy and political debates around issues of economic liberty are often cast in somewhat narrow terms. What is the precise magnitude of this elasticity? Is a certain policy popular among key constituencies? Of course, economic and political analysis have a vital role to play in shaping and understanding public policy. But it is helpful--and refreshing--from time to time to step back and examine the foundation. This volume endeavors to do exactly that.

Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing : Perspectives from Political Philosophy, Used [Hardcover]

8. After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-And Washington [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Since the first rumblings of the economic crisis began in 2007, Americans have suffered four years of recession, stagnation, and fear. The culprit is not free markets, as many have claimed, but Washington policy. The problem is how politicians and regulators have treated the nation's ?too big to fail? financial industry for nearly three decades.

After the Fall : Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-And Washington, Used [Paperback]

9. New Palgrave Invisible Hand [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. New Palgrave Invisible Hand by John Eatwell

New Palgrave Invisible Hand [Paperback - Used]

10. The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for many public policies are dissolving as technology advances. As new detection and metering technologies are being developed for highways, parking, and auto emissions, and information becomes more accessible and user-friendly, this volume argues that quality and safety are better handled by the private sector. As for public utilities, new means of producing and delivering electricity, water, postal, and telephone services dissolve the old natural-monopolies rationales of the government. This volume includes essays on marine resources, lighthouses, highways, parking, auto emissions, consumer product safety, money and banking, medical licensing, electricity, water delivery, postal service, community governance, and endangered species. The editors have mobilized the hands-on knowledge of field experts to develop theories about technology and public policy. The Half-Life of Policy Rationales will be of interest to readers in public policy, technology, property rights, and economics.

The Half-Life of Policy Rationales : How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, Used [Paperback]