Free Enterprise & Capitalism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949546068Author Michael HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint IsletPublisher IsletWeight(grams) 762g

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."-Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to...

After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so...

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant.While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years,...

For more than 100 years, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. Now more timely and thought provoking than ever, this esteemed classic of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633378261Author Viktor ShvetsFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Boyle & DaltonPublisher Boyle & DaltonWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then...

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design,...

An urgent call to reform capitalism so that it stops failing women. Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475093291Author DeluzeFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Paidos IbericaPublisher Ediciones Paidos Iberica

Greedy corporate interests have been lying to us for centuries. Here's an illustrated, entertaining road map for navigating through their hypocrisy and deceptionFrom praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564147141Author Marc BenioffFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521646Author Rafael BadziagFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the "New York Times" and "the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century" by the...

Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's...

*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016* ...

Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames reveal what is behind the inflationary storm that is wreaking havoc on American pocketbooks."This important book should be read by the Federal Reserve and by all of us who care about our way of life."...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.Economic growth is wrecking the...

Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979062Author Armen A AlchianFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 880g

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet. Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality,...

Aglietta's path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the "Regulation School" of Marxist economics, it was received...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986161384Author Matthew C Le MerleFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Fifth Era LLCPublisher Fifth Era LLCWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

'Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.' Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic, the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt. Yet despite its failures, the same market-driven ideas are being applied to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676592Author Eric Holt-Gim nezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How...

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541704350Author Mike MaplesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 149mm * 24mm

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble...

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...

The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis was Henryk Grossman's most important, influential, and also most denounced work. As official Communist economic thought was petrifying, to comply with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bronze Medalist in Economics, 2017 Axiom Business Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780262533522Author Arun SundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, "progressive" (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America's digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In...

A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim...

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926958194Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Red Quill BooksPublisher Red Quill Books

From David Stockman, Washington insider turned iconoclast, "Father of Reaganomics," New York Times bestselling author and founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner investing website, comes an incredibly important and timely book that explains...

This book is a wake-up call to every one about the tactics being used by governments to restrict the public's use of cash and to abuse the laws for its own purposes. Powerful forces are threatening your financial freedom. All over the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523004775Author Marjorie KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Another entry in the best-selling, irreverent, hard-hitting Politically Incorrect Guide series! Economics from a rational, conservative viewpoint-that is, a refreshing look at how money actually works from an author who knows the score, and how the law...