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  • Keystroke Capitalism

    How Banks Create Money for the Few

    by Aaron Sahr ...
    Translated by Sharon Howe ...
    Series series Futures
    Why society needs to reclaim the power to create moneyAt the heart of capitalism lies the ability of private banks to create money at the stroke of a key. Why have we ignored this unique privilege for so long – and at what cost? Aaron Sahr attributes the lack of attention paid to money creation to the core of popular theories of capitalism, which equate economic power with capital ownership. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Inequality

    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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

    An Introduction

    by Stephan Kaufmann, Ingo Stutzle ...
    Translated by Alexander Locascio ...
    An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental workUS Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense criticism—in a way no other economic or sociological work has in a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economics: The Key Concepts

    by Donald Rutherford ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • 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

  • Fifty Major Economists

    by Steven Pressman ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign debt problems which face the world today, it includes entries on:• Paul Krugman• Hyman Minsky• ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Federico Caffè Lectures
    Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced in many economies are detrimental to the economy. Moreover, recent economic experiments and other evidence confirm that most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Profiting Without Producing

    How Finance Exploits Us All

    by Costas Lapavitsas ...
    Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of non-financial enterprises, banks and households. Its most prominent feature is the rise of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Money and Credit

    A Sociological Approach

    by Bruce G. Carruthers, Laura Ariovich ...
    Series series Economy and Society
    This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, as they did in the new millennium’s global financial crisis, their importance becomes obvious and demands further investigation.Bruce Carruthers and Laura Ariovich examine the social dimensions of money ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Comparative Political Economy

    Contours of a Subfield

    by Georg Menz ...
    This new and comprehensive volume covering the subfield of comparative political economy provides a detailed overview over its intellectual roots, clarifies its contents, and introduces the readers to key debates while identifying new and exciting avenues for future research. Ideas, interests, and institutions have traditionally been the main focus points of this field, but the volume argues that ... Read more

    $47.69 USD