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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pp., x. '1' in number line. Following the list of Contributors and "Introduction: Looking Forward Into History" by Editor, Contents divided into 24 Essays in 6 Sections: [I] INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS (1) Jeffrey G. Williamson, "How Tough Are Times in the Third World?"; (2) Julian L. Simon and Rita James Simon, "Do We Really Need All These Immigrants?'; (3) Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback, "Do Imperial Powers Get Rich Off Their Colonies?"; (4) Robert Higgs, "How Military Mobilization Hurts the Economy"; [II] WORKERS AND EMPLOYMENT (5) Price V. Fishback, "Does Workers' Compensation Make for a Safer Workplace?"; (6) Lee J. Alston, "American Farming: If It's Broke, Why Can't We Fix It?"; (7) Elizabeth Hoffman,"How Can Displaced Workers Find Better Jobs?"; [III] WOMEN AND MINORITIES (8) Robert A. Margo, "What is the Key to Black Progress?"; (9) Elyce J. Rotella, "The Equal Rights Amendment--Yes, But Whose?"; [IV] GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY (10) Barry Eichengreen, "As Good As Gold--By What Standard?"; (11) Mark Thomas, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Trade Deficit?"; (12) John Wallis, "The Great Depression: Can It Happen Again?"; (13) Benjamin Baack and Edward Ray, "The Income Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone and Come?"; (14) Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, "Are Government Giveaways Really Free?"; (15) Jonathan Hughes, "Do Americans Want Big Government?"; [V] REGULATION, DEREGULATION AND REREGULATION (16) Richard Sylla, "Should We Reregulate the Banks?"; (17) Hugh Rockoff, "Can Price Controls Work?"; (18) Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecker, "The Securities Exchange Commission: Where From, Where To?'; [VI] TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVENESS (19) Gary M. Walton, "Fulton's Folly"; (20) Peter Temin, "Down the Primrose Path"; (21) Gary Libecap, "What Really Happened at Teapot Dome?"; (22) Paul Uselding, "Does Government Intervention in the Economy Hurt Competitiveness--or Help It?"; (23) Donald N. McCloskey, "Competitiveness and the Antieconomics of Decline"; (24) Nathan Rosenberg, "Does Science Shape Economic Progress--Or Is It the Other Way Around?"; Appendix: Chronology of Important Dates, pp. 181-199; For Further Reading, pp. 201-203; Index, pp. 205-208. Taupe cloth with bold black lettering on spine. Glossy beige dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with Title lettering in large, thick, purple letters on top third front cover, above Subtitle lettering in smaller purple across middle front cover; Editor name letters in smaller purple across bottom front cover. Only peccadilloes are spine sunned to lighter taupe than rest of cover (all lettering still bold purple and eminently readable) and SLIGHT crease remaining at top edge front cover from once having had a paper clip positioned there. Book itself is As New: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Apart from collecting sun's rays on the shelf, book looks unheld, UNREAD. …

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1988 abridged edition in tight binding; spine uncreased; bottom corner of back cover panel has large crease; top front corner slightly curled; spine a little faded; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Original green cloth, without the dust jacket. Spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in all respects. Fine.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A highly respectable copy with some sporadic pencil underlining present (see image) throughout the text. No wear to binding, no creasing to spine and very little trace of wear to covers. Please see 6 pictures attached for a closer look at condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The abridged edition has been designed for a general readership. It will be of interest to all readers concerned with the problems of imperial history. Of the original edition, the Times Literary Supplement commented "Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire is a skyscraper which now dominates the landscape of imperial history.".…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. pp. 408.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 408 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 394 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 408 49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 408.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain s investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism.InhaltsverzeichnisPrefac.…