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      Economics as Science

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      This novel text provides a critical approach to the study of economic thought - from neoclassical economics, to Marxian economics, to Keynesian economics - through the lens of science and…

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      Economics as Science

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      This novel text provides a critical approach to the study of economic thought - from neoclassical economics, to Marxian economics, to Keynesian economics - through the lens of science and…

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      Communication and Coordination Strategies: Essays on the Emergence and Evolution of Economic Complexity

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Economic complexity, like all other forms of complexity, evolved over time, from early Homo sapiens-sapiens to modern man. The rise of economic civilization was punctuated by a number of technology…

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      The National Industrial Recovery Act Redux: Technology and Transitions

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      In this book, recent advances in the field of game theory, specifically in the area of coordination games (theory and policy) are used to reexamine one of the most far-reaching…

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      How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT’s, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      This book presents an alternative view of the Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 as having resulted from government intervention, specifically from a case of flawed government policy in…

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      Making Markets and Making Money: Strategy and Monetary Exchange

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      First studied by Swiss economist Jean-Charles Leonard Sismonde de Sismondi in 1819, Making Markets and Making Money: Strategy and Monetary Exchange examines the strategic aspects of monetary exchange–specifically, of making…

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      Making Sense of Smoot-Hawley: Technology and Tariffs

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Three-quarters of a century after its enactment, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act remains an enigma. Either U.S. policymakers were grossly mistaken or we have missed something. Could there have been a…

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      Making Markets and Making Money: Strategy and Monetary Exchange

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      First studied by Swiss economist Jean-Charles Leonard Sismonde de Sismondi in 1819, Making Markets and Making Money: Strategy and Monetary Exchange examines the strategic aspects of monetary exchange–specifically, of making…

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      Energy Rents: A Scientific Theory of Income Distribution

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The concept of energy rents was first introduced in 1998 (Energy and Organization, Growth and Distribution Reexamined), when it was used to analyze income distribution in U.S. manufacturing in the…

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      World Trade: A Network Approach

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      In this timely work, Bernard C. Beaudreau provides a new approach to world trade, one that combines the archaeological and historical record with recent developments in the theory of networks…

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      The Roaring Twenties - When the Roar Wasn’t Loud Enough

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The decade of the 1920s is colloquially known as the Roaring Twenties, when modernity came to the U.S. and the World, ushering in a decade of unbounded growth and new-found…

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      The Power Prophets, Electric Unit Drive and Utility-Generated Power as Seen Through the Eyes of Early 20th Century Writers

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The Oxford Dictionary defines a prophet as..a person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new cause or theory, a definition which describes to a tee, the…

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      Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification

      Bernard C Beaudreau

      Economists and historians view the events of the 1920s, the stock market boom and crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, as being largely independent. This work presents an…

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      The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes: How the Second Industrial Revolution Passed Great Britain By

      Bernard C Beaudreau

      Business history is littered with stories of missed opportunities, of geniuses that never cashed in on their brilliance, of great men who sold themselves short. Apple Computer with its user-friendly…

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      Underincome: When Markets Fail To Monetize Output

      Bernard C Beaudreau

      Money talks, goods and services don’t. This fundamental distinction is what sets a monetary economy apart from a barter one. As a result, economic growth requires more than capital, labor…

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      Energy and the Rise and Fall of Political Economy

      Bernard C Beaudreau

      Identifying the exclusion of energy as a major oversight in political economy, this study uses basic mechanics and thermodynamics to reexamine the rise of political economy as the science of…

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      Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Economists and historians have viewed the events of the 1920s, the stock market boom and crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, as largely independent events.

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      Energy and Organization: Growth and Distribution Reexamined

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The result is a model of production based on the two universal factor inputs-broadly defined energy and broadly defined organization. Once the model of production is developed, the book then…

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      Energy and the Rise and Fall of Political Economy

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America.

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      The Consumer Creditization of the U.S. Economy

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

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      The Consumer Creditization of the World Economy

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

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      Interregional and International Trade

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Provides a network approach to understanding trade and trade policy from Antiquity to the present. Argues that trade has occurred, is occurring, and will continue to occur within well-defined, stable…

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      ICT: The Industrial Revolution That Wasn’t

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Raises doubt about the validity of the impending Third Industrial Revolution based on information and communications technology. Shows using basic science that information, unlike energy, is not physically productive, raising…

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      The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Was Not a Bubble: A Book of Readings

      In the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, Yale University Economics Professor Irving Fisher remained steadfast in his view that the boom in prices had been warranted, pointing…

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      The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Revisited

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 remains one of the most enigmatic pieces of legislation in the 20th century. Held by some to have caused the Great Depression, and by…

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      Science and the Wealth of Nations: The Physics of Economic Growth

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      As Paul Krugman pointed out in his 2013 New York Times Op-Ed piece entitled The New Growth Fizzle, idea-based growth theory has been a bust.

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      The Roaring Twenties - Turning Up the Volume

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      In this Volume, the various measures taken by successive Administrations to fully utilize the new-found potential are examined critically. These include the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the National Industrial…

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      Energy and Organization

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      Provides an alternative approach to modeling material processes in economics. Argues that material wealth (GDP) is an increasing function of two universal factor inputs, namely broadly-defined energy and broadly-defined organization…

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      The Economics of Speed: Machine Speed as the Key Factor in Productivity

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      This is the first book to examine the nuts and bolts of production processes. It proposes a truly consilient approach to modeling production processes - one that goes beyond the…

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      The Economics of Speed: Machine Speed as the Key Factor in Productivity

      Bernard C. Beaudreau

      This is the first book to examine the nuts and bolts of production processes. It proposes a truly consilient approach to modeling production processes - one that goes beyond the…

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      Great Depression, The: Its Origins In Acceleration And Electric Unit Drive

      Bernard C Beaudreau (Univ Laval, Canada)

      This book is part of a new generation of work on the events of the 1920s and 1930s, one that provides a gestalt view of this period. As such, the…

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