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Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet

The Failure of Mainstream Economists

by Jacques Richard ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.The work has four main themes: First, the book provides a ... Read more

$60.99 USD

The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.The work has four main themes: First, the book provides a
... Read more
Capitalism as Megamachine

A New Historical, Legal and Political Approach

by Jacques Richard ...

Series series Economics and Humanities
The concept of a “megamachine” – a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity – has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues that modern industrial capitalism is at the heart of it. The first part of the book takes stock of ... Read more

$64.99 USD

The concept of a “megamachine” – a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity – has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues that modern industrial capitalism is at the heart of it. The first part of the book takes stock of
... Read more
Code of the Suburb

Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

by Scott Jacques, Richard Wright ...

Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their ... Read more

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This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their
... Read more
Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting

Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...

Series series Economics and Humanities
The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more humane economy will require a new accounting model.Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive accounting in respect of ecology. This new model will take the traditional ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more humane economy will require a new accounting model.Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive accounting in respect of ecology. This new model will take the traditional
... Read more
Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought

Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...

Series series Economics and Humanities
Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought.The work provides a rare juxtaposition of the reasoning, discourse and writings of accountants and economists. With regard to ‘capital’, this approach highlights the ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought.The work provides a rare juxtaposition of the reasoning, discourse and writings of accountants and economists. With regard to ‘capital’, this approach highlights the
... Read more
Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...

Series series Economics and Humanities
Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management.It is argued that while for the practitioners of ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management.It is argued that while for the practitioners of
... Read more
UFOs and the National Security State

Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973

by Richard Dolan ...

"The documentation is spectacularly good, the best ever on the UFO subject. And the conclusion is overwhelmingly powerful." —Whitley Strieber, New York Times–bestselling authorRichard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of US Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has ... Read more

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"The documentation is spectacularly good, the best ever on the UFO subject. And the conclusion is overwhelmingly powerful." —Whitley Strieber, New York Times–bestselling authorRichard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of US Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has
... Read more
Statistics at Square Two

by Michael J. Campbell, Richard M. Jacques ...

STATISTICS AT SQUARE TWOAn easy-to-follow exploration of intermediate statistical techniques used in medical researchIn the newly revised third edition of Statistics at Square Two: Understanding Modern Statistical Applications in Medicine, a team of distinguished statisticians delivers an accessible and intuitive discussion of advanced statistical methods for readers and users of scientific ... Read more

$33.00 USD

STATISTICS AT SQUARE TWOAn easy-to-follow exploration of intermediate statistical techniques used in medical researchIn the newly revised third edition of Statistics at Square Two: Understanding Modern Statistical Applications in Medicine, a team of distinguished statisticians delivers an accessible and intuitive discussion of advanced statistical methods for readers and users of scientific
... Read more
Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

by H. and E. Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E. F. Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. W. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz James O'Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B. M. Bower, August Nemo ...

Series Book 3 - Best Short Stories Omnibus
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. ... Read more

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S.
... Read more
Property Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

by Richard Wright, Scott Jacques ...

Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides
... Read more
Street Robbery: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

by Richard Wright, Scott Jacques ...

Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides
... Read more
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Disney's Land

by Richard Snow ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a ... Read more

$26.99 USD

A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a
... Read more

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