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  • Economic Ideas, Policy and National Culture

    A Comparison of Three Market Economies

    Edited by Eelke de Jong ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    All human beings develop a certain view on the world. Inhabitants of the same country are likely to develop similar worldviews. The common part of these views constitutes the country’s national culture. Consequently, academic economists, policymakers, and the population at large are consistently exposed to the same opinions on the preferred way of organizing an economy. This book explores the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Culture and Economics

    On Values, Economics and International Business

    by Eelke de Jong ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    Since the early 1990s, culture, in the sense of norms and values, has entered economic analysis again, whereas it was totally absent from mainstream economics during most of the second half of the twentieth century. The disappointing results of mainstream economics and developments in the world economy triggered an awareness of the relevance of the context in which people make decisions. ... Read more

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  • Happiness

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    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
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  • Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy

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  • Basic Income

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  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

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    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

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  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

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  • The Economics of Poverty

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  • Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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