Freedomnomics

Author : John R. Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596981334
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedomnomics written by John R. Lott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other common economic questions, bravely confronting the profound distrust of the market that the bestselling book Freakonomics has helped to popularize. Using clear and hard-hitting examples, Lott shows how free markets liberate the best, most creative, and most generous aspects of our society - while efforts to constrain economic liberty, no matter how well-intentioned, invariably lead to increased poverty and injustice.

Author : John R. Lott Jr.
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596985062
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedomnomics written by John R. Lott Jr. and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the philosophical tenets of "Freakonomics" through case studies that demonstrate the theory that the more costly something is, the less of it people will do, in an economic analysis that covers such topics as price discrimination and corporatescandals.

Author : John R Lott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226493640
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Guns, Less Crime written by John R Lott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."Peter Coy, Business Week "By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."John O. McGinnis, National Review "His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date." Public Choice "For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News "A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crimeis an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."James Bovard, Wall Street Journal "John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."Milton Friedman

Author : Sebastiano Bavetta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701784X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Freedom written by Sebastiano Bavetta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a measure of Autonomy Freedom and sheds light on its consequences for policy and political design.

Author : John R. Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621575985
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Guns written by John R. Lott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that's accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate. In The War on Guns, economist and gun rights advocate John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded anti-gun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten Americans into giving up their guns.

Author : Grover Glenn Norquist
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118240472
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debacle written by Grover Glenn Norquist and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative critique of the Obama administration's economic policies and an examination of America's difficult economic future During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised "a net spending cut" to make government smaller in order to reduce the deficit. But this huge increase in government spending and debt, and the resulting prospect of higher taxes, will make America a poorer country. Are Americans happier because the government has determined where this money should be spent? According to John Lott and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, the answer is no, and in Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future they explain why. Obama's economic policies have raised unemployment, slowed economic growth, dramatically raised the national debt, squandered taxpayer money through poor investments, and damaged the housing market. The book explains why Obama's policies on spending, taxes, and regulation have all worked to harm the recovery, increase unemployment, and depress housing prices. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the deficits that President Obama proposes for the years from 2011 through 2020 come to a staggering $126,000 per family of four, and John Lott and Grover Norquist make clear why the costs outweigh the benefits Explains why Keynesian economics is more a way of transferring wealth to political constituencies than a legitimate economic theory for understanding how the economy operates Posits that Obama's economic policies were more an opportunity "to do big things" than to solve the country's economic problems Arguing that the policies of the Obama administration have created widespread economic chaos, Debacle is a bleak look at American finance from Grover Norquist.

Author : John R. Lott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226493558
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Predatory Commitments Credible? written by John R. Lott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predatory pricing has long been a contentious issue among lawmakers and economists. Legal actions are continually brought against companies. But the question remains: how likely are firms to cut prices in order to drive rivals out of business? Predatory firms risk having to keep prices below cost for such an extended period that it would become cost-prohibitive. Recently, economists have turned to game theory to examine circumstances under which predatory tactics could be profitable. John R. Lott, Jr. provides long-awaited empirical analysis in this book. By examining firms accused of or convicted of predation over a thirty-year period of time, he shows that these firms are not organized as the game-theoretic or other models of predation would predict. In contrast, what evidence exists for predation suggests that government enterprises are more of a threat. Lott presents crucial new data and analysis, attacking an issue of major legal and economic importance. This impressive work will be of great interest to economists, legal scholars, and antitrust policy makers.

Author : John R. Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596986697
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bias Against Guns written by John R. Lott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you want the truth the anti–gunners don't want you to know…you need a copy of The Bias Against Guns" —Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Freedom written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Dahlen
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1634138503
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ending Big Government written by Michael Dahlen and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statism denotes any system of big government, a government that gains power at the expense of individual freedom, a government that uses its power to redistribute wealth and regulate the economy. Laissez-faire capitalism, by contrast, is the system of limited government, the system of economic and political freedom. It is a system that has created more wealth and lifted more people out of poverty than any other system. Yet it is relentlessly demonized. We are told that the free market is impractical--prone to crises, depressions, and coercive monopolies. Michael Dahlen dispels these and many other myths. He shows that a laissez-faire capitalist system is not only practical; he shows that it is moral, as it is the only system that recognizes each individual's inalienable right to his own life. A provocative weave of history, philosophy, and political economy, Ending Big Government: The Essential Case for Capitalism and Freedom, shows that capitalism is incontestably superior to statism.