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The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who... -
A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age by Daniel Markovits
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify... -
A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance Daniel Markovitz 9781439859933
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories-a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and... -
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits
Booksplease Price: £11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222014Author Daniel MarkovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Anti-Work: Psychological Investigations into Its Truths, Problems, and Solutions by George M. Alliger
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.79The first book to delineate anti-work in a systematic fashion by identifying and compiling positions from a wide spread of literature, Anti- Work: Psychological Investigations into Its Truths,... -
Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy William Smith (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9781138186231
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of... -
The Vanishing American Dream: A Frank Look at the Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans by Gene Ludwig 9781633310445
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.25As we remap our economy, we have an opportunity to rebuild the American Dream for the long-term. The gap between low- and moderate-income Americans and their wealthier counterparts has become... -
Reading Bernard Williams Daniel Callcut 9780415771900
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on... -
Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age by Daniel Shaviro 9781839981777
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.57The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an... -
The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World by Branko Milanovic 9780241678930
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'More than anyone alive, Branko Milanovic was likely to propound a grand theory of our perplexing global moment, rooted in data and facts. With brilliance, panache, and reliability, he has done it'... -
Loyalty: NOMOS LIV by Paul Woodruff
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £51.37Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same time, more controversial in practice, than that of one's moral obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a... -
Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation by Charles Fried 9780190240158
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £88.75Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly... -
Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation by Charles Fried
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £31.89Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly... -
Recognizing Wrongs by John C P Goldberg
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.34Two preeminent legal scholars explain what tort law is all about and why it matters, and describe their own view of tort's philosophical basis: civil recourse theory.Tort law is badly misunderstood... -
The Choice Theory of Contracts by Hanoch Dagan
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.10This concise landmark in law and jurisprudence offers the first coherent, liberal account of contract law. The Choice Theory of Contracts answers the field's most pressing questions: what is the... -
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders by Janny H.C. Leung 9780190210335
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £64.48This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and... -
Friend v. Friend: The Transformation of Friendship-and What the Law Has to Do with It by Ethan J. Leib 9780199739608
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £33.00Friendship is one of our most important social institutions. It is the not only the salve for personal loneliness and isolation; it is the glue that binds society together. Yet for a host of... -
Equal Justice: Fair Legal Systems in an Unfair World by Frederick Wilmot-Smith 9780674237568
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £27.35A philosophical and legal argument for equal access to good lawyers and other legal resources.Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on your wealth? We wouldn't dream of passing a law to that... -
Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law Hanoch Dagan 9780198876229
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £83.32What makes private law private? What is its domain? What are the values it promotes? Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law addresses these foundational questions in a robust analysis of the key... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £17.62A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program... -
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler 9780141991948
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent, incredibly insightful reimagining of... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.61A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend...