Propriety and Prosperity

Propriety and Prosperity
Author: D. Hardwick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137321059

This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, and political scientists, focusing on Adam Smith's two main works Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations with a view to bringing Smith to a mainstream philosophy audience while simultaneously informing Smith's traditional constituency.

Property Rights

Property Rights
Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Hoover Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081793913X

Drawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins present a blueprint for the nonexpert-expert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.

Prosperity Unbound

Prosperity Unbound
Author: Elena Panaritis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2007-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230596223

This book is about property, informality and institutions relevant to both the developed and the developing world. The author introduces a new analytical tool, Reality Check Analysis, based on theory and practice, and offers a solution to the long-standing problem of informality and to the systematic frustration with the issue.

Guardians of Prosperity

Guardians of Prosperity
Author: Richard X. Bove
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101608218

Since the financial crisis, amid outrage at the likes of Citigroup and JPMorganChase and Washington's rejiggering of the financial system, the banking industry has had one major defender: Richard X. Bove. Now he explains why big banks are the nation's lifeline to success, and why financial disaster will ensue if we make it impossible for them to fill their role in the economy. Bove argues that big banks are necessary to ensure America's position in global finance; to assist corporations in achieving their goals against foreign competition; and, most importantly, to defend the average household's access to financial services.

Prosperity

Prosperity
Author: Colin Mayer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0192559230

What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous and damaging consequences for our economies, environment, politics, and societies. In this urgent call for reform, Prosperity challenges the fundamentals of business thinking. It sets out a comprehensive new agenda for establishing the corporation as a unique and powerful force for promoting economic and social wellbeing in its fullest sense - for customers and communities, today and in the future. First Professor and former Dean of the Säid Business School in Oxford, Mayer is a leading figure in the global discussion about the purpose and role of the corporation. In Prosperity, he presents a radical and carefully considered prescription for corporations, their ownership, governance, finance, and regulation. Drawing together insights from business, law, economics, science, philosophy, and history, he shows how the corporation can realize its full potential to contribute to economic and social wellbeing of the many, not just the few. Prosperity tells us not only how to create and run successful businesses but also how policy can get us there and fix our broken system.

The Noblest Triumph

The Noblest Triumph
Author: Tom Bethell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780312210830

In a sweeping history that is destined to become a classic, the Washington correspondent of "The American Spectator" looks at an individual's right to own private property.

World 3.0

World 3.0
Author: Pankaj Ghemawat
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422142752

Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right? Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation—or opposing both of them. It doesn’t have to be that way. In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist Pankaj Ghemawat reveals the folly in both of these responses. He calls for a third worldview—one in which both regulation and cross-border integration coexist and complement one another. Ghemawat starts by exposing common assumptions about globalization to hard data, proving that the world is not nearly as globalized as we think. And he explains why the potential gains from further integration are much larger than even pro globalizers tend to believe. He then tackles market failures and fears—job losses, environmental degradation, macroeconomic volatility, and trade and capital imbalances—that opponents of globalization often invoke. Drawing on compelling data, he shows that increased globalization can actually alleviate some of these problems. Finally, Ghemawat describes how a wide range of players—businesses, policy makers, citizens, media—can help open up flows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways that maximize the benefits and minimize the potential side effects. World 3.0 dispels powerfully entrenched—but incorrect—assumptions about globalization. Provocative and bold, this new book explains how people around the world can secure their collective prosperity through new approaches to cross-border integration. Ghemawat’s thinking will surprise and move you—no matter where you stand on globalization.

The Noblest Triumph

The Noblest Triumph
Author: Tom Bethell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2001-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788197758

What rights do we have to own & control private property (PP), secure from the intrusion of others? What is the basis of the law that secures PP for an individual? This book looks at the history of PP rights & shows that the key role played by the institution of PP has been misunderstood by Western elites for over a century. Beginning with the ancient Greeks & arriving at the present day, the book looks at basic ideas about PP found in Plato, Adam Smith, Blackstone, Bentham, Marx, Mill & others. It shows that the institution of PP is inextricably tied to traditional conceptions of justice & liberty, & it argues that prosperity & civilization can only arise where PP is securely held by the people.