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  • The Price of Our Values

    The Economic Limits of Moral Life

    by Augustin Landier, David Thesmar ...
    The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good.Modern life is an exercise in discomfort. In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thrive at home? How does one strive for the greater good while guarding one's personal interests? The Price of Our Values argues that the answers to these ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Future of Capitalism

    Facing the New Anxieties

    by Paul Collier ...
    A top economist's "engaging and well-reasoned" look at how to save capitalism from itself—and from the twin threats of populism and socialism ( The Washington Post).Winner, Handelsblatt Prize for Best Business BookDeep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus struggling rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Locust and the Bee

    Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economics

    by Shalini Saxena ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    The effects of economic decision making are far-reaching. Economics is more than just business—the course of government, society, and more has been determined, to a large degree, by economic players. This comprehensive volume takes a three-pronged approach to introduce readers to the essentials of economics: after providing an overview of basic economic concepts, it chronicles the development of ... Read more

    $32.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soulful Science

    What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition

    by Diane Coyle ...
    For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Economics After the Crisis

    Objectives and Means

    by Adair Turner ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
    A noted economist challenges the fundamental economic assumptions that cast economic growth as the objective and markets as the universally applicable means of achieving it.The global economic crisis of 2008–2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Would Keynes Do?

    How the greatest economists would solve your everyday problems

    by Tejvan Pettinger ...
    Have you ever wondered what Adam Smith would have to say about you playing the lottery? Or whether Jeremy Bentham could cure your hangover (through economics)? Ever pondered over what Milton Friedman might get you for Christmas?By comparing and contrasting what the greatest economists of all time would have to say about 40 questions from your everyday life, What Would Keynes Do? will help you get ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Poverty by America

    "Poverty's Symphony: Echoes of Inequality Across the Nation and the American Paradox Unraveling the Enigma"

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    In the land of opportunity, where skyscrapers touch the clouds and dreams are said to come true, lies a profound paradox that has haunted the United States for generations: poverty. "Poverty by America" is a compelling exploration into the concealed depths of this national predicament, an exposé that delves deep into the lives of those who live on the margins and paints a vivid portrait of the ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • Another Economy is Possible

    Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organizations emerged in Europe and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $6.99 USD