Free Enterprise & Capitalism

Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism ...

State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary, but it has been and remains central to the understanding of modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called communist spheres of Russia and China and for...

In this timely book, leading scholars of neoliberalism, together with emerging researchers from a range of intellectual traditions, reflect upon the nature of neoliberalism in light of the recent and ongoing global financial crisis. What emerges is an...

When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, many commentators thought it heralded the end of neoliberalism. Several years later, neoliberalism continues to dominate policy making. This book sets out why such commentators got it so wrong, and why...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This...

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial...

This thought-provoking book considers the global challenges and challengers to the economic supremacy of the West. Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy...

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...

What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein's 'business meetings' and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics? In this witty and incisive examination of the new economy, Peter Fleming argues that they are closer than you...

This book, an analysis of American society, explores the nature of social change since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disneyworld, from the Mall of America to local mall.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977136Author P HeyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 483Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 808g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063273351Author Mariana MazzucatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798637612406Author Robert ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576752913Author LydenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 95mm * 63mm * 8mm

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...

Few international organizations embody the idea of historical progress as strongly as the European Union (EU). This book addresses the main shortcoming of treating EU as a vehicle of progress and political unity between European countries: the disregard...

Handbook of Economic Stagnation takes a broad view, including contributions from orthodox and heterodox economists who examine situations in countries and worldwide regions, including Japan and the Euro area. To be sure, stagnation is periodically...

We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a...

The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation. Vaclav Rybacek examines how these studies have used national...

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract. This book focuses on the incidence of these phenomena in the US,...

Tax Tyranny does not aim to give a description of existing tax systems, rather it provides readers with the intellectual instruments which enable them to understand the role of taxation in the workings of economic systems and to evaluate the fairness of...