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Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought by Michelle Schwarze 9781108478663
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $101.99We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the... -
Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson by Marianne Noble 9781108722216
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $37.13In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass,... -
Round about Industrial Britain, 1830-1860 by Charles R Fay
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Here is a description of a lively and unusual tour of industrial Britain in the period which reached its public climax in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Professor Fay sets his tour in the heart of the... -
50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know Edmund Conway 9781529425130
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ed Conway introduces and explains the essential economic concepts needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and how economics influences every aspect... -
The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons 9780691259352
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $18.37Economics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murderIn The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Henry Spearman, an economics professor with a knack... -
The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton by James McCosh 9781108040860
Booksplease Price: $53.75James 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]
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $3.47A 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: $85.13Booksplease Price: $75.32Traditional 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: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.55The 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
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $41.43The 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: $50.81In 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: $132.87Booksplease Price: $120.65As 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: $127.71Booksplease Price: $115.70Histories 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50First 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: $50.31Booksplease Price: $45.91Condillac'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... -
Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA by Keith Arundale 9781032084794
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81European 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: $36.83Business 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... -
Sympathy: A History by Eric Schliesser 9780199928873
Booksplease Price: $148.23Our 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,... -
An Introduction to Taxation by Eamonn Butler 9780255368360
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $15.76Taxes. 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: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.04In 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: $86.29Economists 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... -
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek 9780199767205
Booksplease Price: $26.12Tomas 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
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $40.30Histories 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... -
Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics by Mats Lundahl 9780367675721
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its... -
Islamic Banking and Finance: An Introduction by Mohammad Hudaib 9781473734609
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $74.69This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the practice of Islamic banking and finance, an increasingly important area in the field of Finance. The authors cover current issues and... -
100 Words to Make You Sound Great by American Heritage Dictionaries 9780618883103
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.72These 100 words have been put to great effect by some of our most important and beloved speakers and writers. Each sense of a word is shown in a separate quotation. Many quotes are from famous public... -
Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy by Matthew Titolo 9781108475679
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $111.12In 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... -
Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689-1815 by Julia Banister 9781107195196
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $115.70This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing... -
The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar 9780691191515
Booksplease Price: $32.52How 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... -
Critical Muslim 46: Capital by Ziauddin Sardar 9781805260479
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36As 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: $96.74Booksplease Price: $91.44This 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: $79.49This 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
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $129.80This 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: $117.88This 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
Booksplease Price: $27.61One 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... -
Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873 by Takuo Dome
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24The 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: $58.04Booksplease Price: $53.20Providing 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: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07A 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: $135.45Booksplease Price: $119.54This 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
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $41.43Ever 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...