Product Description: The theory of the firm has recently undergone a dramatic transformation, drawing heavily on the pathbreaking work of Armen Alchian. This volume explores his contribution to the debate, including essays by Harold Demetz, Ben Klein, Jerry Jordan and Art Devany.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

The author of More Guns, Less Crime continues to argue for looser restrictions on guns as the antidote for crime, attacking mandatory trigger locks and advocating more gun shows, among other radical moves.

Product Description: In his newest book, John Lott gives you the information you need to win the arguments with those who want to ban guns and destroy your individual freedom and liberty to pursue the American dream.Straight Shooting contains Professor Lott's best columns from Publications like National Review, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Investor's Business Daily, Kansas City Star, New York Post, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, USA Today and scores of others...read more

Challenges the philosophical tenets of the best-selling Freakonomics through a series of case studies that demonstrate the author's 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, corporate scandals, and the role of abortion and divorce in crime and the breakdown of family structure. Simultaneous.

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] As the blockbuster best-seller Freakonomics demonstrated, economics can explain everything--from why people behave the way they do to how governments and businesses organize themselves...read more

Challenges the philosophical tenets of the best-selling Freakonomics through a series of case studies that demonstrate the author's 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, corporate scandals, and the role of abortion and divorce in crime and the breakdown of family structure. Simultaneous.

Product Description: On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott’s simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime...read more