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An Outline of International Price Theories by Chi-Yuen Wu 9780415313667
Booksplease Price: £82.32Covering the period 1550 - 1939, this book examines the history and development of theories of international pricing and trade. The work of the following economists is covered: Locke, Barbon,... -
Housing Need and the Need for Housing by Richard Fordham 9781138340862
Booksplease Price: £38.49First published in 1998, this book addresses a central issue in housing: that of 'need' and how to meet it. Need refers either to individual household circumstances or to the aggregate requirement... -
China's Grain Economy: The Challenge of Feeding More Than a Billion by Liming Wang
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest developing country in the world and is still heavily based on agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more than... -
An Outline of International Price Theories by Chi-Yuen Wu
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Covering the period 1550 - 1939, this book examines the history and development of theories of international pricing and trade.The work of the following economists is covered: Locke, Barbon,... -
Eurasia's Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics: Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia, and Central Asia? by Robert Bedeski
Booksplease Price: £55.68The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment... -
China's Grain Economy: The Challenge of Feeding More Than a Billion by Liming Wang 9780367135157
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33This book was originally pubished in 2000. China is the largest developing country in the world and is still heavily based on agriculture. Currently, about 70 per cent of China's total of more than... -
International Commodity Policy: A Quantitative Analysis Roland Herrmann 9781032459196
Booksplease Price: £33.79Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century. It discusses 2 major methods of market regulation: price... -
Russia and the World Economy: Problems of Integration by Alan H. Smith
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Russia and the World Economy analyses the major economic, historical and political obstacles to the successful integration of the Russian economy into the world economy. Alan Smith examines the role... -
Applied Economics by A. J. Brown 9780415607353
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Among the issues discussed in Applied Economics are world population growth and the economic factors governing international migration: issues that are as pertinent today as when the book was... -
Value-Driven IT Management by Iain Aitken
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £74.66Value-Driven IT Management explains how huge sums are wasted by companies (and governments) on poorly aligned, poorly justified and poorly managed IT projects based on 'wishful thinking' cost and... -
Security Careers: Skills, Compensation, and Career Paths by 9780128001042
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £62.86The third edition of Security Careers is the authoritative reference for current job descriptions and pay practices of security, compliance, and ethics occupations. The job descriptions and... -
The Economics of Law, Order, and Action: The Logic of Public Goods by Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94According to the standard position of the economic mainstream, the efficient production of so-called public goods, including law and defense, requires the use of territorial monopolies of coercive... -
Macroeconomic Measurement Versus Macroeconomic Theory Merijn Knibbe 9781032082097
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Ideally, scientific theory and scientific measurement should develop in tandem, but in recent years this has not been the case in economics. There used to be a time when leading economists, or their... -
The Business of Mining: The Mining Business, Uncertainty, Project Variables and Risk, Royalty Agreements, Pricing and Contract Systems, and Accounting for the Extractive Industry by Odwyn Jones
Booksplease Price: £68.80The Business of Mining complete set of three Focus books will provide readers with a holistic all-embracing appraisal of the analytical tools available for assessing the economic viability of... -
Economic Influences on the Development of Accounting in Firms by George J. Staubus
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07A view of accounting as a practical activity - a service function whose value depends on its adaptation to the environment in which it serves - is a good place to start this book, originally... -
The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets: Aesthetics, Money and Turbulence Andres Solimano 9781032103938
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets looks at the historical evolution of the art market from the 15th century to the present day. Art is both an expression of human creativity and an object of... -
Gun Trader's Guide, Forty-Sixth Edition: A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Guide to Modern Collectible Firearms with Current Market Values by Robert A. Sadowski 9781510781382
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.75If you are seeking a comprehensive reference for collectible gun values, theGun Trader's Guideis the only book you need.Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of... -
Gun Trader's Guide, Forty-Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Guide to Modern Collectible Firearms with Current Market Values by Robert A. Sadowski 9781510784307
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.64If you are seeking a comprehensive reference for collectible gun values, theGun Trader's Guideis the only book you need.Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of... -
The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets: Aesthetics, Money and Turbulence Andres Solimano 9781032103952
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets looks at the historical evolution of the art market from the 15th century to the present day. Art is both an expression of human creativity and an object of... -
Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Power Systems: Implementation, Operation and Control by Toshihisa Funabashi 9780128032121
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £93.99Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Power Systems: Implementation, Operation and Control covers the operation of power transmission and distribution systems and their growing difficulty as... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues... -
A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953 by Julie Hessler
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £62.09In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917... -
The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual by Steven M. Bragg
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £70.60The comprehensive guide for CFOs who need an overview of leadership basics from strategies to management improvement tips Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, The New CFO... -
Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations by Robert D. Cooter 9780691147925
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. Developing a new... -
Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations by Robert D. Cooter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. Developing a new... -
The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism by Gilles Saint-Paul 9780691128177
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.73The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions... -
Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit by R. Preston McAfee
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise that... -
The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History by Francesco Boldizzoni 9780691144009
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this... -
Experimental Economics by Douglas D. Davis
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £119.60A small but increasing number of economists have begun to use laboratory experiments to evaluate economic propositions under carefully controlled conditions. Experimental Economics is the first... -
Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank by Vincent Antonin Lepinay
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of... -
The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Lincoln Simon
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £62.59Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources,... -
Exploitation by Alan Wertheimer
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90What is the basis for arguing that a volunteer army exploits citizens who lack civilian career opportunities? How do we determine that a doctor who has sex with his patients is exploiting them? In... -
Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade by Randall W. Stone
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet officials fail to bargain with resolve, to link subsidies to salient political... -
Economics for Lawyers by Richard A. Ippolito 9780691146560
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman... -
Development Economics by Debraj Ray 9780691017068
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.45If you are instructor in a course that uses Development Economics and wish to have access to the end-of-chapter problems in Development Economics, please e-mail the author at debraj.ray@nyu.edu. For... -
Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics by Donald MacKenzie
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.05Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets... -
Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly by John Quiggin 9780691217420
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88A masterly introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that... -
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems by Didier Sornette 9780691175959
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as... -
Finance and the Good Society by Robert J. Shiller 9780691158099
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no...