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Economic Doctrine and Method by Joseph schumpeter
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59First published in 2007. Written in 1954, this volume is a study into the history of doctrines and critical reviews, translated from the work of Professor Schumpeter into English from German.Book... -
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £23.30Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland-all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products,... -
The Australian Army Uniform and the Government Clothing Factory: Innovation in the Twentieth Century by Anneke van Mosseveld 9783319714240
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book reveals the business history of the Australian Government Clothing Factory as it introduced innovative changes in the production and design of the Australian Army uniform during the... -
Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius by Barry Gordon 9781349021185
Booksplease Price: £75.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349021185Author Barry GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint < -
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest by G. Harcourt 9780230284692
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays... -
Opening Doors: Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter: Volume 1, Europe Irving Horowitz 9781560007166
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and... -
Opening Doors: Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter: Volume 2, America Robert Loring Allen 9781560007173
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and... -
The End of Populism: Twenty Proposals to Defend Liberal Democracy by Marcel H. Van Herpen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54The populist wave which has submerged Europe and the United States in recent years seems unstoppable. But is it? The end of populism offers answers and proposes concrete solutions to confront the... -
The End of Populism: Twenty Proposals to Defend Liberal Democracy by Marcel H. Van Herpen 9781526154125
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.91The populist wave which has submerged Europe and the United States in recent years seems unstoppable. But is it? The end of populism offers answers and proposes concrete solutions to confront the... -
A Concise History of Economists' Assumptions about Markets: From Adam Smith to Joseph Schumpeter by Robert Edward Mitchell 9781440833090
Booksplease Price: £43.78This open-minded, multidisciplinary approach challenges existing world views on the endogenous and exogenous forces that drive markets and economies. Nine narrative chapters and a conclusion provide... -
Capitalism and its Critics: Capitalism in Social and Political Theory Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, UK) 9781138497870
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic... -
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993 by Theodore Rosenof 9780807857519
Booksplease Price: £48.09Though understandably preoccupied with the immediate problems of the Great Depression, the generation of economists that came to the forefront in the 1930s also looked ahead to the long-term... -
Socialism-The Tragedy of an Idea: Possible? Inevitable? Desirable? by Lajos Bokros 9783030578459
Booksplease Price: £91.98This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable. Socialism as an economic and societal system was possible... -
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas by Janek Wasserman
Booksplease Price: £21.04A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to the modern-day Tea Party The Austrian School of Economics-a movement that has had a vast impact on... -
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations by Philippe Aghion 9780674292093
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.47Hayek Book Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite"Sweeping, authoritative and-for the times-strikingly upbeat... -
Making Of Economics, The (4th Edition) - Vol Iii: The Radical Assault by E. Ray Canterbery 9789812837721
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79This book is the first in the field to cover exclusively the modern radical economists. Science has always had its radicals; economics is unexceptional in this regard. The book begins with the... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen 9780691199542
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax... -
Methodological Individualism: Introduction and Founding Texts by Nathalie Bulle 9781032582801
Booksplease Price: £60.08Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social... -
Friday is the New Saturday: How a Four-Day Week Can Save Capitalism by Dr Pedro Gomes 9781803996615
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31THE FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK MUST CHANGE: HERE'S HOW.'Fingers crossed that this book will shake up the five-day working week.' - Sir Christopher Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsFriday is the... -
Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy: The Tacit Component by Barbara Jones 9780415488075
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific basis of tacit knowledge.The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge and explain how these relate to a background... -
Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy: The Tacit Component by Barbara Jones
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific basis of tacit knowledge.The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge and explain how these relate to a background... -
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Times Best Business Book of 2018What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest... -
American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 by David M. McCourt 9780472131716
Booksplease Price: £51.25Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania's Robert Strausz-Hupe,... -
Schumpeter's Evolutionary Economics: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Engine of Capitalism by Andersen Esben 9781843313342
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.06Joseph Schumpeter's views on innovation, entrepreneurship and creative destruction are widely cited in many fields of the social sciences, and are influential in policy and decision making, yet they... -
Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism by Richard Swedberg
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.06The renowned economist Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) made seminal contributions not only to economic theory but also to sociology and economic history. His work is now attracting wide attention... -
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future - Updated Edition by Geoff Mulgan 9780691165745
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The 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... -
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times by David S. Landes
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise... -
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith 9780691171647
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories... -
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters by Walter A. Friedman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from... -
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters by Walter A. Friedman 9780691169194
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from... -
Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream... -
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition by John Dunn 9780691180038
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of... -
Tocqueville's Political Economy by Richard Swedberg 9780691132990
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic... -
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe by Catherine E. De Vries
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How challenger parties, acting as political entrepreneurs, are changing European democraciesChallenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National... -
Sociology of Economic Innovation Francesco Ramella (University of Turin, Italy) 9780367359980
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation. Over the past few decades, the economics of innovation has given rise to a lively flow of studies, and... -
Tocqueville's Political Economy by Richard Swedberg 9780691178011
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic... -
A Research Annual by Warren J. Samuels 9781846639043
Booksplease Price: £94.73The collection includes refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell. Review essays on new... -
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe by Catherine E. De Vries 9780691254128
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How challenger parties, acting as political entrepreneurs, are changing European democraciesChallenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise Richard N. Langlois 9780691247533
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational...