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  • The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton by James McCosh 9781108040860

    The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton by James McCosh 9781108040860

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    James McCosh (1811-94), the Scottish philosopher, graduated from the University of Glasgow, spent some time as a minister in the Church of Scotland but then returned to philosophy and spent most of...
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  • The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae 9780070479043 [USED COPY]

    The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae 9780070479043 [USED COPY]

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    A Masterful Analysis of Company, Customer, and Competition Kenichi Ohmae - voted by The Economist as "one of the world's top five management gurus" - changed the landscape of management...
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  • Internal Game Theory by Tassos Patokos

    Internal Game Theory by Tassos Patokos

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    Traditional game theory requires at least two individuals. This book extends game theory to the inner workings of a single person. Using game theory to analyse single individuals makes sense if...
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  • Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521588690

    Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521588690

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    The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relation and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased...
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  • Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521142779

    Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521142779

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    The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relation and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased...
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  • A Treatise on the Industry of Nations: Or, The Principles of National Economy and Taxation by Joseph Salway Eisdell 9781108036924

    A Treatise on the Industry of Nations: Or, The Principles of National Economy and Taxation by Joseph Salway Eisdell 9781108036924

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    In this two-volume work, originally published in 1839, the relatively unknown Joseph Salway Eisdell (1791-1876) explores the political economy of 1830s Britain from a different standpoint from that...
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  • Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781107029934

    Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781107029934

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    As one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century, Paul Anthony Samuelson revolutionized many branches of economic theory. As a diligent student of his predecessors, he reconstructed...
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  • Barbarism and Religion by J. G. A. Pocock 9780521797603

    Barbarism and Religion by J. G. A. Pocock 9780521797603

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    The second volume in the acclaimed sequence of Barbarism and Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment. John Pocock investigates a series of major authors who wrote Enlightened histories...
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  • Suspicions of Markets: Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century by Donald Rutherford 9783319821894

    Suspicions of Markets: Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century by Donald Rutherford 9783319821894

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    In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as...
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  • An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization by Ivan Berend 9781107030701

    An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization by Ivan Berend 9781107030701

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    Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's...
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  • Social Theory & Social Change by Trevor Noble 9780333912393

    Social Theory & Social Change by Trevor Noble 9780333912393

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    Understanding and explaining the causes and consequences of social change has been an important concern of social theorists throughout the history of sociology. This wide-ranging text focuses on a...
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  • Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781009679671

    Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781009679671

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    As one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century, Paul Anthony Samuelson revolutionized many branches of economic theory. As a diligent student of his predecessors, he reconstructed...
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  • Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian

    Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian

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    Histories of economics tend to portray attitudes towards commerce in the era of Adam Smith as celebrating what is termed doux commerce, that is, sweet or gentle commerce. Commerce and Its Discontents...
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  • Economics and Demography by Ian Bowen 9780415508704

    Economics and Demography by Ian Bowen 9780415508704

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    First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic...
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  • Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge by Etienne Bonnot De Condillac 9780521585767

    Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge by Etienne Bonnot De Condillac 9780521585767

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    Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception...
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  • Sympathy: A History by Eric Schliesser 9780199928873

    Sympathy: A History by Eric Schliesser 9780199928873

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    Our modern-day word for sympathy is derived from the classical Greek word for fellow-feeling. Both in the vernacular as well as in the various specialist literatures within philosophy, psychology,...
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  • Critical Muslim 46: Capital by Ziauddin Sardar 9781805260479

    Critical Muslim 46: Capital by Ziauddin Sardar 9781805260479

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    As 2023 marks the 300th birthday of Adam Smith, 'Father of Capitalism', capital apparently makes the world go round-but, as this issue explores, it is not the only structure we can use to orchestrate...
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  • Competing Schools of Economic Thought: Retrospect and Prospect Lefteris Tsoulfidis 9783031585791

    Competing Schools of Economic Thought: Retrospect and Prospect Lefteris Tsoulfidis 9783031585791

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      This book presents a comprehensive overview of the development of various schools of economic thought. Written for students of economics and anyone interested in the history of economics, it...
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  • Democracy: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number by Maryann Zihala 9780761826187

    Democracy: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number by Maryann Zihala 9780761826187

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    This is a collection of some of the greatest theses ever written about democracy. Here you will find Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Aquinas, Cicero and Aristotle, John Stuart Mill and John Locke-...
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  • Rediscovering Social Economics: Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm by Roger D. Johnson 9783319512648

    Rediscovering Social Economics: Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm by Roger D. Johnson 9783319512648

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    This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited...
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  • Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811351501

    Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811351501

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    This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China's opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory. It studies institutional...
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  • Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics by Kaushik Basu

    Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics by Kaushik Basu

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    One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if...
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  • The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691191515

    The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691191515

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    How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated...
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  • Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek 9780199767205

    Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek 9780199767205

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    Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National...
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  • Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian 9781316608456

    Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian 9781316608456

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    Histories of economics tend to portray attitudes towards commerce in the era of Adam Smith as celebrating what is termed doux commerce, that is, sweet or gentle commerce. Commerce and Its Discontents...
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  • An Introduction to Taxation by Eamonn Butler 9780255368360

    An Introduction to Taxation by Eamonn Butler 9780255368360

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    Taxes. Why do we pay them? What benefits do they bring? What damage do they cause? And how could they work better? Here, author Eamonn Butler provides a jargon-free guide to taxation, its history,...
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  • Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy by Matthew Titolo 9781108468763

    Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy by Matthew Titolo 9781108468763

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    In Privatization and Its Discontents, Matthew Titolo situates the contemporary debate over infrastructure in the long history of public–private governance in the United States. Titolo begins with...
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  • Global Economic Growth: Theories, Research, Studies, and Annotated Bibliography, 1950-1997 by Lewis-Guodo Liu 9780313307386

    Global Economic Growth: Theories, Research, Studies, and Annotated Bibliography, 1950-1997 by Lewis-Guodo Liu 9780313307386

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    Economists have come a long way in understanding the economic growth process since Adam Smith. Economic growth research has not only had a great impact on policy making, it has also generated a large...
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  • Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA by Keith Arundale 9781032084794

    Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA by Keith Arundale 9781032084794

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    European venture capital (VC) funds have historically underperformed their US counterparts. This has resulted in reduced investment into European VC by the traditional institutional investors. This...
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  • Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James R. Otteson 9780190914219

    Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James R. Otteson 9780190914219

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    Business has a bad name for many people. It is easy to point to unethical and damaging behavior by companies. And it may seem straightforward to blame either indivuduals or, more generally, ruthless...
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  • The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691178882

    The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691178882

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    How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated...
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  • An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059

    An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059

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    A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about...
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  • Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873 by Takuo Dome

    Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873 by Takuo Dome

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    The period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain (and, by extension, many other countries) as we know it today, with the major economists of the time providing influential...
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  • Moral Discourse in the History of Economic Thought by Laurent Dobuzinskis 9781032106120

    Moral Discourse in the History of Economic Thought by Laurent Dobuzinskis 9781032106120

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    Providing an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values. Adopting an approach rooted in ‘pragmatism’, the work...
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  • A History of Portuguese Economic Thought by Antonio Almodovar 9781138866225

    A History of Portuguese Economic Thought by Antonio Almodovar 9781138866225

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    A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal. The authors adopt a comparative approach to analyse how economic...
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  • Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics by Matthew Smith 9780415583930

    Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics by Matthew Smith 9780415583930

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    This study provides a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858). It clarifies Tooke's monetary thought and its legacy to modern...
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  • Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth by Richard Arena 9781316503898

    Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth by Richard Arena 9781316503898

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    Ever since Adam Smith, economists have been preoccupied with the puzzle of economic growth. The standard mainstream models of economic growth were and often still are based either on assumptions of...
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  • Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811044779

    Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811044779

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    This book focuses on the gradual reform of Chinese society since China's opening up to the world, and gives a unified explanation of the process based on bargaining theory. It studies institutional...
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  • Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences by Lynee Lewis Gaillet 9781880393277

    Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences by Lynee Lewis Gaillet 9781880393277

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    An outgrowth of the recent meeting of the International Society of the History of Rhetoric, this collection challenges the reader to reexamine the broad influence of 18th- and 19th-century Scottish...
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  • Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change by Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca 9780521393065

    Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change by Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca 9780521393065

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    This book is concerned with the role of economic philosophy ('ideas') in the processes of belief-formation and social change. Its aim is to further our understanding of the behaviour of the...
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