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The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton by James McCosh 9781108040860
Booksplease Price: £41.67James 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... -
The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae 9780070479043 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £2.69A 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... -
Internal Game Theory by Tassos Patokos
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39Traditional 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... -
Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521588690
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.00The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relation and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased... -
Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform by Paolo Sylos-Labini 9780521142779
Booksplease Price: £32.12The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relation and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased... -
A Treatise on the Industry of Nations: Or, The Principles of National Economy and Taxation by Joseph Salway Eisdell 9781108036924
Booksplease Price: £39.39In 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... -
Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781107029934
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.53As 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... -
Barbarism and Religion by J. G. A. Pocock 9780521797603
Booksplease Price: £32.42The 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... -
Suspicions of Markets: Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century by Donald Rutherford 9783319821894
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.16In 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... -
An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe: Diversity and Industrialization by Ivan Berend 9781107030701
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £73.41Why 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... -
Social Theory & Social Change by Trevor Noble 9780333912393
Booksplease Price: £45.75Understanding 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... -
Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays by Steven G. Medema 9781009679671
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.87As 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... -
Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Histories 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... -
Economics and Demography by Ian Bowen 9780415508704
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37First 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... -
Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge by Etienne Bonnot De Condillac 9780521585767
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £35.59Condillac'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... -
Sympathy: A History by Eric Schliesser 9780199928873
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £114.91Our 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,... -
Critical Muslim 46: Capital by Ziauddin Sardar 9781805260479
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88As 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... -
Competing Schools of Economic Thought: Retrospect and Prospect Lefteris Tsoulfidis 9783031585791
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This 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... -
Democracy: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number by Maryann Zihala 9780761826187
Booksplease Price: £61.62This 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-... -
Rediscovering Social Economics: Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm by Roger D. Johnson 9783319512648
Booksplease Price: £100.11This 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... -
Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811351501
Booksplease Price: £91.38This 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... -
Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics by Kaushik Basu
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40One 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... -
The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691191515
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How 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... -
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek 9780199767205
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £20.25Tomas 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... -
Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by Anoush Fraser Terjanian 9781316608456
Booksplease Price: £31.24Histories 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... -
An Introduction to Taxation by Eamonn Butler 9780255368360
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £12.22Taxes. 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,... -
Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy by Matthew Titolo 9781108468763
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.94In 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... -
Global Economic Growth: Theories, Research, Studies, and Annotated Bibliography, 1950-1997 by Lewis-Guodo Liu 9780313307386
Booksplease Price: £66.89Economists 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... -
Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA by Keith Arundale 9781032084794
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94European 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... -
Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society by James R. Otteson 9780190914219
Booksplease Price: £28.55Business 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... -
The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691178882
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43How 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... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A 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... -
Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873 by Takuo Dome
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The 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... -
Moral Discourse in the History of Economic Thought by Laurent Dobuzinskis 9781032106120
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Providing 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... -
A History of Portuguese Economic Thought by Antonio Almodovar 9781138866225
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34A 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... -
Thomas Tooke and the Monetary Thought of Classical Economics by Matthew Smith 9780415583930
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.67This 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... -
Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth by Richard Arena 9781316503898
Booksplease Price: £32.12Ever 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... -
Parse of China: Gradual Reform Logic Based on Bargaining Game by Yilun Tong 9789811044779
Booksplease Price: £90.86This 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... -
Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences by Lynee Lewis Gaillet 9781880393277
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99An 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... -
Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change by Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca 9780521393065
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.87This 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...