‎International Monetary System: A Time of Turbulence: A Time of Turbulence (AEI symposia)‎

‎AEI Press 1982 523 pages in8. 1982. Broché. 523 pages.‎

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‎Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopoly. - [NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2009 - INITIATING ""TRANSACTIONS-COST ECONOMICS""]‎

‎Worcester MA, The Heffernan Press, 1976. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In ""The Bell Journal of Economics"": Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1976. Entire volume offered. Very light wear to extremities otherwise a very fine and crisp copy (not ex-library). Pp. 73-104. [Entire volume: 353 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Williamson's seminal paper - one of the most influential in economics of regulation - in which he argued that in the presence of uncertainty about future demand or costconditions, the transactions costs of writing a complete contract, contingent on all future outcomes is prohibitively costly. The paper initiated together with Goldberg's paper published the same year the new field of ""transactions-cost economics"".The paper was a contributing factor in Williamson being awarded the Nobel prize in Economics in 2009 for his "" work in economic governance.""In the paper he states that: ""A once-for-all auction for the provision of a natural monopoly service is, in practice, totally impractical. On the other hand, periodic re-tendering introduces its own problems. Most public utility industries require substantial sunk, long-lived investment - whether in distribution wires, rail lines, or telecommunications conduits. Where the life of this investment exceeds the life of the franchise, contractual arrangements must ensure continued investment and maintenance of the sunk asset. It may be difficult to verify the quality of the maintenance of the asset ex post. This is particularly the case where the quality dimension includes maintaining the human capital of the staff required to ensure the continued operation of the asset. In addition, the incumbent provider of the service is likely to have better quality information about the likely cost and demand characteristicsof the service, providing an informational advantage over potential rival bidders.To illustrate these ideas, Williamson used a case study based on the experience of tendering cable television franchises in Oakland, California. He concludes: That franchise bidding for cable television has superior properties to regulation is not transparent - Not only is simple franchise bidding - beset with numerous transactional difficulties, but the institutional infrastructure that predictably develops to check dysfunctional or monopoloid outcomes has many of the earmarks of regulation. Using modern language, Williamson highlights and emphasises the importance of transactions costs. Williamson introduced for the first time the notion that natural monopoly regulation can be viewed as a form of long-term contracting. That long-term contract incorporates mechanisms to allow for adjustment to changes in the environment: At the risk of over-simplification, regulation may be described contractually as a highlyincomplete form of long-term contracting in which (1) the regulatee is assured an overall fair rate of return, in exchange for which (2) adaptations to changing circumstances are successively introduced without the costly haggling that attends such changes when parties to the contract enjoy greater autonomy'.""‎

‎Industrial Organization (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)‎

‎Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 1996 498 pages in8. 1996. Broché. 498 pages.‎

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‎Transaction Cost Economics --- VOLUME I et II --- (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)‎

‎Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 1995 1392 pages in8. 1995. Cartonné. 1392 pages.‎

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‎Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith‎

‎Oxford University Press 1978 372 pages 17x3x23cm. 1978. Cartonné jaquette. 372 pages. Recueil d'essais académiques édité par Thomas Wilson et Andrew S. Skinner publié en hommage à Adam Smith. L'ouvrage publié par Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press) explore les thèmes centraux de l'œuvre de Smith notamment les relations entre le marché et l'État tel que présenté dans 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'‎

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‎The Impoverished Superpower: Perestroika and the Burden of Soviet Military Spending‎

‎ICS Press 1990 350 pages 14 86x1 85x21 41cm. 1990. Broché. 350 pages.‎

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‎Opuscules sur la rente foncière.‎

‎Paris, Guillaumin et Cie., 1854. (8), 321, (1) pp. 8vo. Sewn, uncut. Einaudi 5939. First edition. The question of the nature and evolution of ground rent remained topical among French speaking economists during the 19th century. The present work is in favour of Ricardo's theory and opinion concerning the question of "rent." - The pages 209-213 contain mathematical formula. The author's name is also written as: Volkov. ‎

‎La Banque d'Angleterre et les Banques d'Écosse.‎

‎Paris, Librairie de Guillaumin, 1867. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Hinges with little wear. Small library label pasted on to lower part of spine. A few library stamps pasted on to the first few pages. Otherwise a fine copy. XI, (1), 560 pp.‎

‎First edition. Louis Wolowski played an important part in the foundation of the Crédit Foncier, whose principal object was the withdrawal of rural property from the expenses of loans and hypothecary subrogation. A bimetallist in monetary matters and a free trader in commercial matters, he did not carry economic liberalism so far as to oppose all State intervention in the matter of labour on the contrary, he had a very important share in the law of 19 May, 1871, which limited the labour of children and women in manufacturing, and which created division inspectors for the supervision of labour.‎

‎The Second Socialist Revolution: Alternative Soviet Strategy (Second World)‎

‎I.B. Tauris 1990 256 pages 14x2 8x21 6cm. 1990. Cartonné. 256 pages. Ouvrage de Tatyana Zaslavskaya sociologue et économiste soviétique qui propose une analyse et une stratégie alternative pour l'URSS à la fin des années 1980. Elle y développe l'idée que l'URSS pourrait connaître une 'deuxième révolution socialiste' de nature démocratique visant à réaliser un socialisme authentique en s'appuyant notamment sur des discussions intellectuelles et politiques vives au sein de cercles académiques comme à Akademgorodok‎

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‎L'Art de profiter de sa retraite‎

‎ORGANISATION 2003 224 pages 15x2x22 5cm. 2003. Broché. 224 pages.‎

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‎Anmærkninger til Hr. Professor Bangs nyere Betænkninger om den nye Mynt Indretning i Holsteen.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Lauritz Christian Simmelkiær, 1787. Uden omslag. 44 pp.‎

‎Originaltrykket. Zoëga var en af hovedmændene bag planerne om at skabe et pengevæsen i Hertugdømmerne med sedler, der var indløselige med sølv. - Bibl. Danica II:854.‎