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Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life,... -
Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Partha Dasgupta 9780821350041
Booksplease Price: £22.33This book provides an account of the current understanding of social capital. It covers both theoretical and empirical studies, and the concept is debated throughout. Also included in this volume is... -
Economic Policy and Technological Performance by Partha Dasgupta 9780521022217
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £31.06A growing awareness of the contribution that technological change has made and can make to economic and social welfare has brought science and technology policy to the forefront of public discussions... -
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review Partha Dasgupta 9781009494304
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £42.19We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen production; and... -
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta 9780198288350
Booksplease Price: £55.70An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on... -
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review Partha Dasgupta 9781009494335
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.73We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen production; and... -
Biological Extinction: New Perspectives by Partha Dasgupta 9781108711814
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £26.55The rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated are integral... -
Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet by Partha Dasgupta
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral... -
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2 by Partha Dasgupta
Booksplease Price: £28.77Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet 'official' development economics has concentrated on headline... -
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by Partha Dasgupta 9780199267194
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £44.01In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural... -
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 by Partha Dasgupta 9780199240692
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £60.35Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet 'official' development economics has concentrated on headline... -
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2 by Partha Dasgupta 9780198287681
Booksplease Price: £86.95Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day to day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet `official' development economics has concentrated on headline... -
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Sir Partha Dasgupta 9781529144192
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Issues in Contemporary Economics: Volume 3: Policy and Development by Partha Dasgupta 9780333524794
Booksplease Price: £90.27This book is Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the World Economic Congress held in Athens in 1989 under the auspices of the International Economic Association. It considers various aspects of economic... -
The Good Polity: Normative Analysis of the State Alan Hamlin (University of Southampton) 9780631158042
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £32.01This volume presents a set of new essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists concerned with the normative underpinnings of the state. "The Good Polity" is devoted to the... -
Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks by Sanjeev Goyal
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £42.24Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role... -
Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy by Robert C. Lind
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £99.76This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published... -
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition by Diane Coyle
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.49For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than... -
New Directions in Development Economics: Growth, Environmental Concerns and Government in the 1990s by Mats Lundahl
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.68New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemna of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role... -
New Directions in Development Economics: Growth, Environmental Concerns and Government in the 1990s by Mats Lundahl 9781138866089
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.56New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemna of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role... -
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011 (Global): Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World by Justin Yifu Lin 9780821385227
Booksplease Price: £31.67The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011: Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (ABCDE) presents papers from a global gathering of the world's leading development... -
The Economic Borders of the State by Dieter Helm 9780198286066
Booksplease Price: £101.43One of the central themes of politics in the 1980s was the rolling back of the state's economic borders, placing greater emphasis on the role of individual choice and markets allocating resources... -
India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Jean Dreze 9780198295280
Booksplease Price: £66.47This book presents analysis of endemic deprivation in India and the role of public action in addressing the problem. The analysis is based on a broad view of economic development, focusing on human... -
Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory Eric Rasmusen (Indiana University) 9781405136662
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £34.93Written in a crisp and approachable style, Games and Information uses simple modeling techniques and straightforward explanations to provide students with an understanding of game theory and... -
Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization by Stefano Zamagni 9781848449749
Booksplease Price: £90.61This eloquent book analyses the theory of the cooperative form of enterprise from an historic perspective, whilst assessing its appeal in the current economic environment.The authors show that... -
Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization Stefano Zamagni 9781849803144
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.71This eloquent book analyses the theory of the cooperative form of enterprise from an historic perspective, whilst assessing its appeal in the current economic environment.The authors show that... -
The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma by Paul R. Ehrlich 9780300071245
Booksplease Price: £36.20In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their... -
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion by Andrew Weiss 9780691608907
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm... -
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion by Andrew Weiss 9780691637273
Booksplease Price: £87.41Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm... -
Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management Thomas Sterner 9781891853128
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £46.43As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic 'toolkit' for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other... -
India: Development and Participation by Jean Dreze 9780199257492
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.27This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on... -
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Reader's Edition by Joseph E. Stiglitz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous... -
Promise, Trust and Evolution: Managing the Commons of South Asia by Rucha Ghate 9780199213832
Booksplease Price: £64.37From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia. Developed countries, have managed to establish well-defined... -
Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance by Edward Barbier
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £19.19In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on... -
Economic Analysis of Social Common Capital by Hirofumi Uzawa
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Social common capital provides members of society with those services and institutional arrangements that are crucial in maintaining human and cultural life. Social common capital is comprised of... -
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age by Mordecai Kurz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Since the 1980s, the United States has regressed to a level of economic inequality not seen since the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, technological innovation has... -
Life: A Journey through Science and Politics by Paul R. Ehrlich
Booksplease Price: £20.00A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics "Compelling. . . . [Ehrlich's] memoir includes remarkable stories of his... -
Economic Theory and Global Warming by Hirofumi Uzawa
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.61In this book, Professor Uzawa modifies and extends the theoretical premises of orthodox economic theory to those broad enough to be capable of analyzing the phenomena related to environmental... -
Dynamism: The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Economic Growth by Edmund Phelps
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £25.37Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread presence of certain values, in particular individualism and self-expression... -
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress by Joseph E. Stiglitz 9780231152143
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.34It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed...