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Culture, Institution, and Development in China: The economics of national character by C. Simon Fan 9780367374648
RRP: €49.97€43.73How does culture shape history, and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese culture, political and legal institutions, and "national character" of... -
Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective by Ere Nokkala 9780367360511
RRP: €160.65€139.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sociology of Economic Innovation by Francesco Ramella 9780367359980
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation. Over the past few decades, the economics of innovation has given rise to a lively flow of studies, and innovation studies continues to develop as an... -
Ricardo and International Trade by Shigeyoshi Senga 9780367350611
RRP: €47.59€41.72David Ricardo's theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International Trade looks at the ongoing renaissance of the Ricardian international trade theory. The book's... -
Ricardo and the History of Japanese Economic Thought: A selection of Ricardo studies in Japan during the interwar period by Susumu Takenaga 9780367350512
RRP: €47.59€41.72David Ricardo's theories were introduced in fragments in Japan after the Meiji restoration of 1868 and his work came into prominence late in comparison to other major thinkers figuring in the history of economic thought. The book seeks to analyse the... -
Capitalism and Religion in World History: Purification and Progress by Carl Mosk 9780367348953
RRP: €61.87€53.78Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption. Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselves trapped in contradiction. By loaning out their resources to merchants, they made themselves pariahs to... -
French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong: From the 1850s to 1980s by Hubert Bonin 9780367210427
RRP: €160.65€140.04Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or... -
International Development and the Washington Consensus: A Pluralist Perspective by John Marangos 9780367200039
RRP: €160.65€139.56With this book, John Marangos offers an insightful historical and theoretical review of the Washington Consensus and its successors among the mainstream. Following an intuitive structure, it explores international development and the Washington Consensus... -
Carl Menger And The Origins Of Austrian Economics by Max Alter 9780367153533
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book deals with central elements of the cultural, political and social background of Austrian economic theory in general and Menger's version of it in particular. It draws on Menger's theoretical writings as well as on his explicitly methodological... -
Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico by Susan Deans-Smith 9780292723726
RRP: €33.31€28.73Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History A government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in... -
Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ian Klaus 9780300223590
RRP: €19.03€16.45A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism... -
Wall Street: America's Dream Palace by Steve Fraser 9780300151435
€13.35Meet the imperious aristocrat, the wily confidence man, the Napoleonic hero, and the soulless sinner-iconic figures on the Street since the days of the Revolution Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power... -
Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community by Nathan Newman 9780271022055
RRP: €46.35€41.29How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has... -
Uncertainty, Expectations, and Financial Instability: Reviving Allais's Lost Theory of Psychological Time by Eric Barthalon 9780231166287
RRP: €73.78€57.86Eric Barthalon applies the neglected theory of psychological time and memory decay of Nobel Prize-winning economist Maurice Allais (1911-2010) to model investors' psychology in the present context of recurrent financial crises. Shaped by the behavior of... -
Capital in the Nineteenth Century by Robert E Gallman 9780226633114
RRP: €66.64€64.06When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926-98) gathered... -
Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland by Kathryn Marie Dudley 9780226169132
RRP: €35.70€34.81"I never felt he left me or our marriage or the children. I felt he was leaving the farm problems". These words are from a woman reflecting on the farm crisis of the 1980s, the greatest economic disaster to hit rural America since the... -
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Paul Erickson 9780226046631
RRP: €95.20€91.17In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military... -
The Conditions of Industrial Peace by J. A. Hobson 9780415528436
RRP: €44.02€38.71First published in 1927, Hobson's treatise on industrial conflict analyses the nature and causes of industrial disputes with the aim of finding an equitable means of settling them. Assessing the notion of a fair wage within the context of the pool of... -
Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership by Price V. Fishback 9780226082448
RRP: €39.27€38.14The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling... -
Key Economic Areas in Chinese History: As Revealed in the Development of Public Works for Water-Control by Ch'ao-Ting Chi 9781138316720
€117.33This book, first published in 1936, offers the conception of the dynamics of the Key Economic Area as an aid to the understanding of Chinese economic history. By tracing their development through a historical study of the construction of irrigation and... -
Worlds of Taxation: The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945 by Gisela Huerlimann 9783319902623
RRP: €178.49€100.85This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of... -
Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science: A Study of Economics and Alchemy by Wayne Parsons 9781849802918
RRP: €38.02€34.62In this innovative highly readable contribution to the study of Keynes, Wayne Parsons makes a radical departure from the conventional approaches to Keynesian economies. As a political scientist Parsons believes that, if we are to grasp the revolutionary... -
Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx: On Some Fundamental Issues in 21st Century Political Economy by Spencer J. Pack 9781848447639
€128.06Spencer Pack compares and contrasts Aristotle's, Smith's and Marx's theoretical systems on six fundamental issues: exchange value, money, capital, character, government, and change. This book also provides insights on issues concerning the continuing... -
Taxation and the Promotion of Human Happiness: An Essay by George Warde Norman by G. W. Norman 9781848444850
€125.68George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the... -
The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall by Tiziano Raffaelli 9781848444751
RRP: €73.72€66.79In light of the recent and ongoing surge of interest in Alfred Marshall's work, this new and original reference volume fills a gap in the literature through a detailed examination of his thought and of his contributions to economics and social science. ... -
The Impact of Alfred Marshall's Ideas: The Global Diffusion of his Work by Tiziano Raffaelli 9781847205124
€131.63This is a unique and detailed book which surveys the diffusion and reception of Alfred Marshall's ideas and the ways they have influenced the development of economic science up to the present day. This is an accessible and extremely readable work... -
Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue by Donald R. Stabile 9781847202369
€113.78Donald Stabile places current concerns over the commercialization of academia in a historical context by describing the long-standing question of the extent to which market economics can and should be applied to higher education. The debate between Plato... -
New Perspectives on Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Ann Firth 9781845424800
€113.78Adam Smith's remarkable book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, now deservedly coming to greater prominence, combines classical philosophy, early modern psychology and incisive observations of everyday life into a complex theory of human behaviour. New... -
Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945 by Martin Chick 9781845421113
€119.01Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using newly available archival material the author draws important comparisons between... -
The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession by David Colander 9781840646948
€119.73Economics is the study of a complex system in which simple laws are not always forthcoming. That complexity mandates three branches of the profession: positive, normative and the art of economics. The economics profession has focused on one of these -... -
Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting 1890-1990 by Birgitte Andersen 9781840641219
€132.10This book represents an original study of long term patterns in technological development and innovation in large corporations. The author is primarily concerned with understanding open-ended transformation processes in the evolution of industrialised... -
Fundamentals of Happiness: An Economic Perspective by Lall Ramrattan 9781839107726
€106.64Examining the fundamental thinking underpinning the foundation for economic studies of happiness, this book explores the theories of key economists and philosophers from the Greek philosophers to more modern schools of thought. Lall Ramrattan and Michael... -
Research in Economic History by Christopher Hanes 9781789733044
RRP: €89.24€26.28In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions. The volume looks across a range of issues... -
Including a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 by Luca Fiorito 9781787698703
RRP: €92.81€77.31Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 37C features a symposium celebrating the centenary of the influential economist and historian of economic thought Robert Heilbroner. Luca Fiorito, Harald Hagemann, Edward Nell, and Steven... -
Research in Economic History by Christopher Hanes 9781786352767
RRP: €129.70€107.77Volume 32 of Research in Economic History (REHI) is forthcoming in April 2016. REHI is a peer-reviewed series published once a year. We cover all areas of economic history, including demography and development. Research in Economic History is a... -
A Brief History of Political Economy: Tales of Marx, Keynes and Hayek by Lars Magnusson 9781785369049
€111.40This book examines the three historical master tales and questions their validity and relevance in today's moment of global disorientation and lack of convincing and dominant economic narrative. Investigating the ideological dimension and exploring the... -
A History of Economic Thought: From Aristotle to Arrow by Charles E. Staley 9781557860316
RRP: €68.96€59.76A History of Economic Thought is a text for undergraduate history of economic thought courses. It covers the major writers and schools of thought: in doing so, it reveals not only ideas, but relevant stories of the lives of the great economic thinkers... -
The Ascendancy of Finance by Joseph Vogl 9781509509294
RRP: €65.45€56.80The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the... -
Global financial stability report: a decade after the global financial crisis: , are we safer? by International Monetary Fund 9781484375594
€60.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484375594Author International Monetary FundFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint International Monetary Fund (IMF)Publisher International Monetary Fund... -
Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics by David Greasley 9781444337808
RRP: €24.69€21.80Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly...