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Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within by Ha-Joon Chang 9781898855538
RRP: $38.98$37.46In controversial speeches made around the world, Stiglitz has undone the conventional wisdom that dominated policy-making at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. For the first time, Stiglitz's nine most... -
Trading for Good: How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money by Christian Felber
RRP: $29.23$22.91Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good. Instead, our views on trade have polarized between two extremes: 'free trade' ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and 'protectionists' who view it as a... -
The Infinite Desire for Growth by Daniel Cohen
RRP: $39.00$30.99Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the... -
Applied Macroeconometrics by Carlo Favero 9780198296850
RRP: $136.50$111.27This text provides graduate students of macroeconomics, econometrics, and monetary economics with discussion and practical illustrations of the techniques used in applied macroeconometrics. Until the 1970s, there was consensus regarding both the... -
Plundered Nations?: Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction by Paul Collier 9780230290228
RRP: $116.98$116.24This book consists of eight case studies investigating the political economy of the decision chain involved in natural resource extraction in resource-rich countries, where plunder rather than prosperity has become the norm. Some case studies reveal... -
Macroeconomic Paradigms and Economic Policy: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession by Nicola Acocella
RRP: $66.28$57.84The recent financial crisis has demonstrated the dangers of ignoring the factors that led to previous crises, and the effectiveness of the policies designed to deal with them. Over time, these macroeconomic policies have evolved, oscillating between... -
The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 by Noel Maurer 9780691155821
RRP: $81.90$65.21Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The... -
Turning Point: End of the Growth Paradigm by Robert Ayres 9781853834394
RRP: $77.98$68.37This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival -... -
The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs by Hans-Werner Sinn 9780198791447
$60.53This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the... -
Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics by Mark Blaug 9781849803151
RRP: $99.35$89.66This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory. The... -
Money, going out of style: The story of money and the mystery of its decline by Zvi Schreiber 9780983396857
RRP: $19.40$19.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983396857Author Zvi SchreiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Zvi SchreiberPublisher Zvi SchreiberWeight(grams) 381g -
Economics for Pleasure by G. L. S. Shackle 9780521095075
RRP: $76.03$62.95The language and theory of economics is very much a part of our lives; yet most of us know little of the meaning of 'inflation', 'productivity' or 'balance of payments', or of the workings of the bank rate or a national monetary policy. The problem is to... -
Handbook of Monetary Economics: Volume 3B by Benjamin M. Friedman 9780444534545
RRP: $230.10$208.49What are the goals of monetary policy and how are they transmitted? Top scholars summarize recent evidence on the roles of money in the economy, the effects of information, and the growing importance of nonbank financial institutions. Their... -
Money: Sound and Unsound by Joseph T Salerno 9781610166553
RRP: $41.79$39.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610166553Author Joseph T SalernoFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
Input-Output Economics by Wassily W. Leontief 9780195035278
RRP: $132.60$102.39The only comprehensive introduction which Leontief has written to his model of Input-Output Economics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1972. Many of the chapters have already appeared as articles in journals, but... -
The Making of Islamic Economic Thought: Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses by Sami Al-Daghistani 9781108964982
RRP: $44.83$40.29Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From... -
Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
RRP: $35.08$28.04A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide... -
Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism by David Miller 9780198278641
RRP: $199.88$168.79Can we conceive of a market economy that fulfils the ideals of socialism? In this book, David Miller provides a comprehensive examination, from the standpoint of political theory, of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in... -
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Ilich Lenin 9780717800988
RRP: $29.23$25.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800988Author V.I. LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Ethics and Economic Theory by Khalid Mir
RRP: $89.68$78.25This book takes a multi-disciplinary critique of economics' first principles: the fundamental and inter-related structuring assumptions that underlie the neo-classical paradigm. These assumptions, that economic agents are rational, self-interested... -
Business Cycles: Part II by F. A. Hayek 9780865979048
$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979048Author F A HayekFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 504g -
Numerical Methods in Economics by Kenneth L. Judd 9780262547741
$188.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547741Author Kenneth L. JuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
History of Marginal Utility Theory by Emil Kauder
RRP: $68.25$54.09The author blends historical narrative with a topical approach and discusses such aspects of the theory as measurement, total value, and imputation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology... -
Growth and Distribution: Second Edition by Duncan K. Foley
RRP: $111.05$88.90A major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corporate capitalism, and innovation.Authors Duncan Foley, Thomas Michl, and Daniele Tavani present Classical and... -
Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis: Looking for Reasonable Shortcuts by Gines de Rus 9781803924618
RRP: $62.30$56.73This thoroughly updated second edition incorporates key ideas and discussions on issues such as wider economic impacts, the treatment of risk and the importance of institutional arrangements in ensuring the correct use of technique. Gines de Rus... -
Foucault's Archaeology of Political Economy by Iara Vigo de Lima 9780230242616
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of Foucault's contributions to the methodology of economics, historiography of economic thought and studies on Adam Smith's context and... -
Game Theory: Interactive Strategies in Economics and Management by Aviad Heifetz 9780521176040
RRP: $74.08$66.81Game theory is concerned with strategic interaction among several decision-makers. In such strategic encounters, all players are aware of the fact that their actions affect the other players. Game theory analyzes how these strategic, interactive... -
Essays on Economics and Economists by R. H. Coase
RRP: $46.80$44.91How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these questions, Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most... -
Macroeconomics: Principles & Policy by William Baumol 9781337794985
$152.16Master today's principles of macroeconomics and gain an understanding of current economic issues with the solid introduction and policy-based examples and applications found in Baumol/Blinder/Solow's MACROECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES AND POLICY, 14E. Written by... -
Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science by Dani Rodrik 9780393246414
RRP: $38.98$36.97In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and... -
Law, Economics, and Game Theory by John Cirace 9781498549103
RRP: $78.00$69.46This book considers three relationships: law and economics; economics and game theory; and game theory and law. Economists teach lawyers that economic principles cut across and integrate seemingly different legal subjects such as contracts, torts, and... -
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition by Geoff Mulgan 9780691165745
RRP: $39.00$30.99The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and... -
Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession by Justin Yifu Lin 9781107038875
RRP: $58.48$50.58In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing on experience from his privileged position, Lin offers unique... -
Macroeconomic Policy: Demystifying Monetary and Fiscal Policy by Farrokh K. Langdana 9780387776651
$89.64This is an applications-oriented text that demystifies the linkages between monetary and fiscal policies and key macroeconomic variables such as income, unemployment, inflation and interest rates. Specially written "newspaper" articles simulate... -
Handbook on the Economics of Sport by Wladimir Andreff 9781848443518
RRP: $134.45$121.31This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also... -
Expansionary Fiscal Contraction: The Thatcher Government's 1981 Budget in Perspective by Duncan Needham 9781107042933
RRP: $195.00$175.27In its 1981 Budget, the Thatcher government discarded Keynesian counter-cyclical policies and cut Britain's public sector deficit in the depths of the worst UK recession since the 1930s. Controversially, the government argued that fiscal contraction... -
Basic Income: The Material Conditions of Freedom by Daniel Raventos 9780745326290
RRP: $48.73$31.94Basic Income is a policy idea that could help us revolutionise the way we organise society. This book is the first proper guide to basic income -- what it is, how we can organise it, and how it can benefit the majority in different spheres of their lives... -
Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? by Dale T. Mortensen 9780262633192
RRP: $43.88$35.30Why are workers with identical skills found in both "good" jobs and "bad" jobs? Why are workers who do similar jobs paid differently, contrary to standard competitive theory? Observable differences in workers doing the same job... -
Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production by Gerard Dumenil
RRP: $44.83$34.98The debate around growing inequality is raging amongst economists, and Marxists are finding new ways to map-out the modern economy. Managerial Capitalism introduces a new way of understanding the changing structure of our economy through the emergence... -
Rational Expectations by Steven M. Sheffrin 9780521479394
RRP: $77.98$64.86Economists have developed models in which individuals form expectations of key variables in a 'rational' manner such that these expectations are consistent with actual economic environments. Professor Sheffrin first explores the logical foundation of the...