Free Enterprise & Capitalism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871456Author Eugen Von B hm-BawerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

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,...

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 The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not...

Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that...

Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched - the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class,...

A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521639Author Rafael BadziagFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380931Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie,"...

In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, such as the...

Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech...

A stellar cast of economists examines the roles of creative destruction in addressing today's most important political and social questions.Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant while rents accumulate, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19...

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...

Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of...

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."...

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...

A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year"Superbly argued and important...Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112921Author James MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

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...

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But...

The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739937Author Tom WheelerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, in The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of...

An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand facade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic...

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965604079Author Gary WolframFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dunlap GoddardPublisher Dunlap GoddardWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Build conscious leadership into your business.You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758256Author Roger LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

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...

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573572Author Naomi OreskesFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 938g

This book tries to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue duree from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the...

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals. Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have...

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much...

The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record - sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances - hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596055445Author Friedrich ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek's most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates around capitalism and its discontents. In...

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...