Economics

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died...

Capital theory traditionally spans two major compartments of economic theory: the theory of production of both individual products and the total product, and the theory of the distribution of the aggregate product between the different classes of...

Politicians and economists fixate on "growing the economy"-measured by a country's gross domestic product. But this yardstick counts harmful activities such as greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, and cigarette sales as gains, and it ignores...

A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case studies, and clear economic concepts, this book explains in three parts what financial crises are, how they...

The violent financial disruptions of the past several years have toppled nearly all of the lords of Wall Street, except for a few voices that warned of economic collapse. Among them, Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their...

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge's writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in 1909, to the Beveridge Report of 1942 and beyond...

The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets looks at the historical evolution of the art market from the 15th century to the present day. Art is both an expression of human creativity and an object of economic value and financial refuge at times of...

Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977815Author Israel M KirznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 344g

An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the fieldAround the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike. In this book, leading scholars and governmental...

Professor Morishima concentrates on the three volumes of Das Kapital and their contributions to the major topics of traditional Marxian economics. He provides a rigorous mathematisation of the labour theory of value, the theory of exploitation, the...

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for...

This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics. Without delving into too much technical argument or too many mathematical examples, it aims toshow that binary decision-making is...

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich...

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow? distils growth policy lessons from the author's first-hand experience in Poland, Kenya, India, and Russia, and his contributions to the economic policy debates that followed the emerging...

Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright.Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth?This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976917Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 847Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1324g

George Soros has done more for open societies than any other private citizen in the world. In Underwriting Democracy he describes his experiences helping to bring about democratic change in Eastern Europe,experiences that are especially relevant now...

A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780199269570Author SmithFormat HardbackImprint Oxford University...

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which...

It is now widely acknowledged that history is useful, even essential, because it helps us predict the future. The history of ideas in economics, as in other fields of inquiry, plays an important role in enlightening current researchers as they endeavour...

Honours fulfil one of the most fundamental desires of human beings, namely, to be recognised and held in esteem by others. There are thousands of awards in all areas of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion, the voluntary sector, academia,...

This book provides an overview of the recent research on saving and consumption, a field in which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Attempts by economists to understand saving and consumption patterns have generated some of the...

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical...

This book provides a practical introduction to mathematics for economics using R software. Using R as a basis, this book guides the reader through foundational topics in linear algebra, calculus, and optimization. The book is organized in order of...

The energy challenges of resource depletion, security of supply and pollution have been effectively addressed by market entrepreneurship, technology, and measured regulation. The remaining sustainability issue for carbon-based energy reliance is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781285423524Author Steven LandsburgFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Cengage Learning AustraliaPublisher Cengage Learning AustraliaWeight(grams) 1450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789699988349Author Sheikh Mahmud AhmadFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Peace PublicationsPublisher Peace Publications

Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit-cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which...

Water covers some 75% of the earth's surface, while land covers 25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this imbalance is that there are more people located on land than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970854Author Bertrand JouvenelFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 202g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978492Author Ludwig von MisesFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 496g

The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British social policy debates for more than a century. Since the First World War, a variety of market economists, radical activists, and social reformers have emphasized the possibility of...

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Understanding the changing role of central banks and their recent novel policies is essential for analysing many economic and financial issues, ranging from financial regulation and crisis, to exchange rate dynamics and regime changes, and QE and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048392Author Jeff FuhrerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Modern economics is like a metropolitan area. Economists' ideas about business and markets are like the magnificent buildings of the city centre. Yet most growth and prosperity is in the suburbs -- lately many of economics' greatest successes have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262018906Author Carlos A. VeghFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1606gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495042Author Thomas FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)...

Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism,...