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Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism by Brooke Harrington 9780691145860
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans... -
Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being by Bruno S. Frey
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an "unscientific"... -
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics by Daniel Stedman Jones 9780691151571
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.26How did American and British policymakers become so enamored with free markets, deregulation, and limited government? This book--the first comprehensive transatlantic history of the rise of... -
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover 9780691166292
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise by Richard N. Langlois
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational... -
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise Richard N. Langlois 9780691247533
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational... -
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like... -
The Theory of the Loser Class by Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781552451687
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In the early nineties, Beck sang 'I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?' and changed everything. Suddenly, it wasn't so bad to be a nerd or an oddball; loser chic had begun. Ten years later,... -
Social Costs Today: Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises by Wolfram Elsner 9781138243477
Booksplease Price: £26.39This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on... -
Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought by Agnar Sandmo
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.51In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the late... -
A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace and Capitalism: From Leisure Class to War, Peace and Capitalism by Rick Tilman
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24First Published in 2015. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was a contemporary of John Dewey and C.S. Peirce and ranks as one of the seminal minds of his generation of American thinkers in economics and... -
Social Costs Today: Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises by Wolfram Elsner
Booksplease Price: £46.79This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on... -
Apostle of Human Progress: Lester Frank Ward and American Political Thought, 1841-1913 by Edward C. Rafferty 9780742522176
Booksplease Price: £61.04Although Lester Frank Ward's accomplishments are not as well known today, he is considered the father of American Sociology and his work profoundly influenced such important thinkers as Thorstein... -
A Research Annual by Luca Fiorito 9781784411541
Booksplease Price: £112.67This volume includes referred articles, archival pieces, and book reviews. The first section deals with economics and AntiSemitism and focuses on the contribution of four leading economists: Werner... -
Fashion Theory: A Reader Malcolm Barnard 9781138296947
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £40.49This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Robert Lekachman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.66This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is "conspicuous consumption", a pattern of... -
Institutional Economics Revisited by Shigeto Tsuru 9780521599726
Booksplease Price: £35.47Shigeto Tsuru is one of Japan's most respected senior economists. In these lectures, he provides a reappraisal of institutionalism as a school of thought and discusses its relevance for the issues... -
American Literature in Context: 1865-1900 by Andrew Hook 9781138691216
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation's literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this... -
American Literature in Context: 1865-1900 by Andrew Hook 9781138691186
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation's literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this... -
Insatiable Is Not Sustainable by Douglas M. Brown 9780275968489
Booksplease Price: £76.51In today's culture of insatiable freedom, many believe that to be human is to be an insatiable self-actualizer. Yet insatiable is not sustainable. In order to solve today's crisis of environmental... -
Weber, Passion and Profits: 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' in Context by Jack Barbalet 9780521895095
Booksplease Price: £95.49Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirational and widely read by both scholars and... -
The Good Society Walter Lippmann 9780765808042
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67The Good Society is a critical text in the history of liberalism. Initially a series of articles published in a variety of Lippmann's favorite magazines, as the whole evolved, it became a frontal... -
Activist Unionism: Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin: Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin by Donald R. Stabile 9781563242939
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34First Published in 1994. Sol Barkin was never an elected official in the trade union movement, but for twenty-six years, from 1937 until he retired in 1963. His role also saw him serve on government... -
John Kenneth Galbraith by James Ronald Stanfield 9780230242685
Booksplease Price: £92.16This book examines the life and work of John Kenneth Galbraith, a truly iconic figure in progressive modern liberalism and a seminal influence in the rise of heterodox political economy. It... -
Abundance for What? by David Riesman 9781138518605
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £111.19This classic collection of essays by Riesman discusses the implications of affluence in America. Riesman maintains that the question that should be raised by wealth has shifted over time from how to... -
Weber, Passion and Profits: 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' in Context by Jack Barbalet 9780521174442
Booksplease Price: £43.34Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirational and widely read by both scholars and... -
The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists by G. Page West 9781782545323
Booksplease Price: £106.02As the United States continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008, politicians, policymakers and academics are increasingly turning to the lessons of history to gain insight... -
Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and the State in the Modern Times by Professor Harry F Dahms 9780814719039
Booksplease Price: £31.08A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations over the past century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and... -
The Magdalene Legacy: Exploring the Wounded Icon of Sexuality by Sandra M. Rushing 9780897893886
Booksplease Price: £75.81Rushing's seminal work addresses the ways in which modern women struggle with holistic spirituality, sexuality, and anger. She employs the Mary Magdalene model as an archetype in which sexuality and... -
Magisterial Imagination: Six Masters of the Human Science by Max Lerner
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This work brings together Max Lemer's extended and enduring essays on Aristotle, Niccolb Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Thorstein Veblen, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr... -
Evolutionary Financial Macroeconomics by Giorgos Argitis 9780367777319
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Thorstein Veblen and Hyman Minsky are seminal thinkers who place great importance on the interaction between processes that link finance and financial markets with economic and social evolution. This... -
Land and the Given Economy: The Hermeneutics and Phenomenology of Dwelling by Todd S. Mei 9780810134065
Booksplease Price: £32.94Alarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgentthe reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Landand the Given Economy examines how the landed basis of humanexistence... -
Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 by John M. Jordan 9780807857366
Booksplease Price: £57.25In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges,... -
Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views Howard J Sherman 9780765616685
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59This classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. Revised,... -
Economic Barbarism and Managerialism by David S. Pena 9780313314698
Booksplease Price: £61.63Challenging the view that managerialism is a form of capitalism and that capitalism has eclipsed socialism, Pena shows that the managerial or new class is an exploiting class. The work of Thorstein... -
Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises: A post Keynesian analysis of exchange rate determination John T. Harvey (Texas Christian University, USA) 9780415781206
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Breaking from conventional wisdom, this book provides an explanation of exchange rates based on the premise that it is financial capital flows and not international trade that represents the driving... -
Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought by Donald R. Stabile 9780313297380
Booksplease Price: £76.51This interesting work presents a unique perspective on the history of economic thought by showing that classical economists from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall had sympathy for workers - for example,... -
Love, In Theory by E. J. Levy 9780820348278
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.16In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the information age. In ten... -
CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY by Edith Wharton 9781551116730
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.16Ruthless and predatory, Edith Wharton's seductive young heroine Undine Spragg exploits a series of husbands from the American west to New York and France in her search for one with the ideal... -
What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire by Noam Yuran
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature...