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Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach by Thad Dunning
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides... -
Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes by Thad Dunning 9780521515009
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues,... -
Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective by Jean-Philippe Platteau 9781316609002
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.79In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it... -
Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach by Thad Dunning 9781107017665
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.22This unique book is the first comprehensive guide to the discovery, analysis, and evaluation of natural experiments - an increasingly popular methodology in the social sciences. Thad Dunning provides... -
Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes by Thad Dunning 9780521730754
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues,... -
The Endurance of National Constitutions by Zachary Elkins 9780521731324
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of... -
The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monastery's Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin by James M. Robinson 9780227172780
Booksplease Price: £25.72The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the... -
Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World by Gregory K. Dow
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Around 15,000 years ago, almost all humans lived in small mobile foraging bands. By about 5,000 years ago, the first city-states had appeared. This radical transformation in human society laid the... -
Resources for Teaching Mathematics: 11-14 by Colin Foster 9781441142276
Booksplease Price: £36.75This title contains 80 complete lesson plans with complementary worksheets specifically aligned to the Key Stage 3 curriculum, plus a companion website. Don't have time to find new ideas to teach... -
Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion by J.D. Angrist
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.29The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences... -
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? by Nita Rudra 9780521715034
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and... -
Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy by Sophal Ear 9780231161121
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country's social indicators and the... -
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? by Nita Rudra 9780521886987
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and... -
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong 9781107691209
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.11This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue duree history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography,... -
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose by Stefan Dercon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many... -
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose by Stefan Dercon 9781805260080
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions by Kym Anderson 9780521763233
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £84.67Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why... -
Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care by George C. Halvorson 9781439816141
Booksplease Price: £46.38Health care reform is within our reach. According to George Halvorson, CEO of the nation's largest private health care plan, only by improving the intent, quality, and reach of services will we... -
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation by Edward B. Barbier 9780521701655
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.58Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost... -
Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India by Shivaji Mukherjee
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93What explains the peculiar spatial variation of Maoist insurgency in India? Mukherjee develops a novel typology of colonial indirect rule and land tenure in India, showing how they can lead to land... -
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation Edward B. Barbier (University of Wyoming) 9780521877732
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.66Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost... -
Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights: A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832 Toke S. Aidt 9780197679715
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £59.08The Great Reform Act of 1832 was a pivotal moment in British political development that opened the door of democratic reform, entailing a slow and gradual journey to universal suffrage, secret... -
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt 9781107001626
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.22How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political... -
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.59How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question,... -
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova 9781783783205
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018 Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize ... -
The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy by Aaron W. Hughes
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Aaron W. Hughes presents the first major study of dialogue as a Jewish philosophical practice. Examining connections between Jewish philosophy, the literary form in which it is expressed, and the...