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  • The Life of Cheese

    Crafting Food and Value in America

    by Heather Paxson ...
    Series Book 41 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Assumptions Economists Make

    by Jonathan Schlefer ...
    Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Jews, Confucians, and Protestants

    Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures are more prone to progress than others and more successful at creating the cultural capital that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Plastic Money

    Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries

    by Alya Guseva, Akos Rona-Tas ...
    In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authorities, assume the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Asian Economy

    Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis

    by Dilip Das ...
    The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the global recovery.This book analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Freedom for Sale

    Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security

    by John Kampfner ...
    Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism -- the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, "the end of history"; was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed, human rights would inevitably follow.Or not. In the last twenty years, nations including India, Russia, China and the United Arab ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

    by Bharat Hazari ...
    First published in 1978. This book provides a simple, systematic, yet rigorous treatment of the key aspects of the pure theory of international trade and distortions. The opening chapter presents the standard two-factor, two-commodity barter model of international trade and a comprehensive treatment of the important properties and relationships. The rest of the book consists of four sections: ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought

    Edited by Vincent Barnett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has tended to be studied either thematically (by topic), in terms of different currents of thought, or ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Planning and Profits in Socialist Economies

    by Jean-Charles Asselain ...
    This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: * Describes the centralized model and compares its requirements with the realities of socialist countries * Discusses the economic policies of the post-Stalinist period * Examines the origin of the reforms which began in 1956, culminating in the Soviet economic reform of 1965 and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The New Industrial State

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    Series series The James Madison Library in American Politics
    With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consumer "need" where none ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Aspects of British Economic History

    1918-1925

    by A. C. Pigou ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Landmarks in the History of Economic Thought
    Covering the period from November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period. There are sections on employment, production, government intervention in industry, the monetary factor, real income and real wages. A statistical appendix brings together in four ... Read more

    $57.99 USD