The Best Book on the Market: How to stop worrying and love the free economy市场最佳集：如何将对市场的担忧转为热爱自由经济
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作者： Eamonn Butler 著
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出版时间： 2008-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 160印刷时间： 2008/06/01开本： 大32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781906465056包装： 精装内容简介
The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it’s time we all tried to understand it a little better. Luckily Eamonn Butler is the ideal teacher to get us all up to speed.
Markets are everywhere. But how many of us understand how they work, and why? What does a ‘free market’ really mean? Do free markets actually exist? Should we have more or less of them? Most of all – do we really need to know all this? Answer: Yes we do.
MAKING ECONOMICS SIMPLE SO THAT EVEN POLITICIANS CAN UNDERSTAND IT
If any mention of free markets sends your mind screaming back to your musty old school economics textbook, think again. The Best Book on the Market will keep you gripped, intrigued and well informed. Abandoning complicated mumbo-jumbo, Eamonn Butler, Director of the UK’s leading free market think-tank, demystifies the world of markets, competition, monopolies and cartels, prices and overspills. Using examples from our everyday lives Dr Butler explains how the markets we have, and the many more we need, can work to create a richer, freer and more peaceful world.
STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE FREE ECONOMY
He delves into the morality of markets and interrogates important issues such as why feckless rock-stars are paid much more than worthy nurses; whether we should worry about people trading in arms, water, healthcare etc; whether black markets are immoral; and questions of equality; sweatshops, and fair trade.
“This book is about the free market and how unfree it can be when there is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Eamonn Butler presents solid arguments against government attempts to ‘perfect’ the markets by regulation, controls, subsidies, or by adopting measures which obstruct competition and private ownership.”
目录
Acknowledgements
1. The amazing world of markets
A trip to the market
No words, but mutuakbenefit
Markets are everywhere
Nobody's perfect
Time, place and trust
Who? What? Where? Why?
Unorganized order
Markets are a force for good
Getting resources to their best use
2. How specialization and exchange make
us rich
Markets weren't born yesterday
Money makes the world go round oblong
Exchange is natural
Why we exchange so much
Collaboration through.., disagreement
Specialization and efficiency
The huge productive power of specialization
Specialization makes you slicker
Capital accumulation
The spiralling success of specialization
3. The instant messaging system of price
Price is an instruction as well as a fact
Buyers, sellers and market prices
X marks the (perfect) spot
Now the bad news
The impossibility of perfect information
The market is a discovery process
Help me, information
The instant messaging of price
Our unintended genius
Price eliminates waste
Markets are only human
It's hard to find good stuff
The costs of doing a deal
4. Killing the messenger
Zen and the art of price maintenance
Soldering up the price mechanism
Wage and price controls
Controls mess up the market
Distorting price through subsidy
That o1' black market
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5. The driving force of competition
6. The rules of the market
7. Market failure (and government failure)
8. The morality of the market
9. How to grow a market
Index
