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  • Finance and the Common Good

    Edited by Kees Buitendijk, Cor van Beuningen ...
    Over the past fifty years, (financial) capitalism has brought about an enormous growth in wealth. Millions around the world have been lifted out of poverty. However, the downsides of the present global economic constitution are rapidly becoming evident as well. Rising inequality, soaring debt levels, and repeated cycles of boom and bust have proven to be some of its key characteristics. After the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • 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

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Rethinking Capitalist Development

    Essays on the Economics of Josef Steindl

    Edited by Tracy Mott, Nina Shapiro ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This collection honours the work of the eminent economist Josef Steindl. Steindl's work is illuminated through a critical appraisal of its central constructs with a focus on its relevance to current economic conditions. This collection charts the thinking of one of the leading economic theorists of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Varieties of Capitalism:The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    Edited by Peter A. Hall, David Soskice ...
    What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Keys to the City

    How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    by Michael Storper ...
    Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • A Participatory Economy

    by Robin Hahnel ...
    As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy, but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like.A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to capitalism. It proposes and defends concrete answers to how all ... Read more

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  • Psychopath Economics: Part 1 – The Bull & The Bewildered Herd

    Psychopath Economics and how to defeat it, #1

    by Peter Batt ...
    Series Book 1 - Psychopath Economics and how to defeat it
    More than politics, economics is the art of the possible; a discipline that goes to the heart of how we live our lives. It can deliver riches beyond dreams, as well as the famine of nightmares. Its exercise exceeds even war as the ultimate expression of human power. Indeed, economics is usually the war itself.The 2008 financial crash and its aftermath has exposed many of our comfortable beliefs ... Read more

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  • Tectonic Politics

    Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation

    by Nigel Gould-Davies ...
    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise. But traditional methods of managing political risk are no longer legitimate or effective.In Tectonic Politics, Nigel Gould-Davies explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. He analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Mechanisms of Governance

    by Oliver E. Williamson ...
    This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated. Transaction cost ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Designing in Ethics

    Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Seumas Miller, Thomas Pogge ...
    Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology, and artefacts. We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets, and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make, but is also something that in many ways makes us. The discipline of ethics must take this constitutive feature of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD