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Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.68Economics 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: £21.98This 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... -
The Economics of Non-Convex Ecosystems by Partha Dasgupta 9781402018640
Booksplease Price: £90.86Economists all too often assume that ecosystem and population dynamics are subject to convex (even linear) processes. However, research by ecosystem and population ecologists has shown that the... -
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review Partha Dasgupta 9781009494304
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.42We 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... -
Economic Policy and Technological Performance by Partha Dasgupta 9780521022217
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21A 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 Non-Convex Ecosystems by Partha Dasgupta 9781402019456
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £70.88Economists all too often assume that ecosystem and population dynamics are subject to convex (even linear) processes. However, research by ecosystem and population ecologists has shown that the... -
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta 9780198288350
Booksplease Price: £61.00An 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... -
Biological Extinction: New Perspectives by Partha Dasgupta 9781108711814
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.03The 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... -
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review Partha Dasgupta 9781009494335
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £111.75We 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 9781108482288
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £89.10The 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... -
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by Partha Dasgupta 9780199267194
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.03In 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 2 by Partha Dasgupta 9780198287681
Booksplease Price: £93.48Two 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 9780199240708
Booksplease Price: £32.03Two 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 1 by Partha Dasgupta 9780199240692
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £61.79Two 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 by Partha Dasgupta 9780063454385
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £18.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us by Sir Partha Dasgupta 9781529144208
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00'The most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need... by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the... -
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Sir Partha Dasgupta 9781529144192
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'The most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need... by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the... -
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us by Sir Partha Dasgupta 9781529144215
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05What if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else?For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture. The models and metrics tell us... -
Issues in Contemporary Economics: Volume 3: Policy and Development by Partha Dasgupta 9780333524794
Booksplease Price: £90.86This 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: £35.41This 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... -
Evaluation and Poverty Reduction by Osvaldo N. Feinstein 9780765800923
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £101.23In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, states plainly and precisely the rationale for this volume. "Evaluation is a central aspect of any poverty reduction endeavor... -
Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy by Robert C. Lind
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.99This 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... -
Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks by Sanjeev Goyal
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Networks 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... -
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition by Diane Coyle
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For 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 9781138866089
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.19New 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... -
Evaluation and Poverty Reduction by Osvaldo N. Feinstein
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, states plainly and precisely the rationale for this volume. "Evaluation is a central aspect of any poverty reduction endeavor... -
The Economic Borders of the State by Dieter Helm 9780198286066
Booksplease Price: £111.12One 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... -
Economic Organizations as Games by K Binmore 9780631168881
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.92Economists have in recent years found the theory of games to be an attractive route for exploring imperfectly competitive markets. In this collection of articles, some of the best minds in... -
Wealth, Inclusive Growth and Sustainability by Shunsuke Managi 9780367662264
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The excessive pursuit of economic interests has resulted in severe environmental and social problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality and disparity. There is an urgent need... -
India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Jean Dreze 9780198295280
Booksplease Price: £72.15This 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... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538563
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £106.57"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538570
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory Eric Rasmusen (Indiana University) 9781405136662
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.92Written 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 Stefano Zamagni 9781849803144
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.41This 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... -
Control and Game Models of the Greenhouse Effect: Economics Essays on the Comedy and Tragedy of the Commons by Herman S.J. Cesar 9783540582205
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book is the result of a four years' research project at the European Uni- versity Institute in Florence, Italy. I am grateful to my supervisor, Mark Salmon, for his many ideas. I am also... -
Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization by Stefano Zamagni 9781848449749
Booksplease Price: £99.17This 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: £37.44In 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: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Known 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... -
An Introduction to R for Quantitative Economics: Graphing, Simulating and Computing by Vikram Dayal 9788132223399
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage... -
The Environment in Economics and Development: Pluralist Extensions of Core Economic Models by Vikram Dayal 9788132216704
Booksplease Price: £46.28This brief views the environment through diverse lenses - those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology. Chapter 2 discusses diverse...