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Poverty Traps by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the... -
The Politics and Economics of Power by Samuel Bowles 9781138978928
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - traditionally the focus of political science - is becoming increasingly... -
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £123.99Booksplease Price: £112.57Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings... -
Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability and Efficiency by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44The market does not spontaneously generate democratic or participatory economic institutions. This book asks whether a modern, efficient economy can be rendered democratically accountable and, if so,... -
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution by Samuel Bowles 9780691126388
Booksplease Price: £78.76In this novel introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings of the... -
The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution by Samuel Bowles 9781107014039
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £58.69Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest,... -
The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution by Samuel Bowles 9781107601604
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest,... -
Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination by Samuel Bowles 9780198843207
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £58.95Bowles and Halliday capture the intellectual excitement, analytical precision, and policy relevance of the new microeconomics that has emerged over the past decades. Drawing on themes of the... -
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded... -
Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability and Efficiency by Samuel Bowles 9780521432238
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09The market does not spontaneously generate democratic or participatory economic institutions. This book asks whether a modern, efficient economy can be rendered democratically accountable and, if so,... -
Across the Continent: A Summer'S Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax, by Samuel Bowles ... by Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel Bowles 9781425554125
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425554125Author Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint... -
The Life And Times Of Samuel Bowles V1 by George S Merriam 9781498079211
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £37.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498079211Author George S MerriamFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Life And Times Of Samuel Bowles V2 by George S Merriam 9781498108577
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498108577Author George S MerriamFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success by Samuel Bowles 9780691136202
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting... -
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how... -
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought by Samuel Bowles 9780415608831
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to... -
After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000 by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a... -
Across the Continent: A Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States by Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel Bowles 9781633913561
RRP: £19.75Booksplease Price: £17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633913561Author Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint... -
Across The Continent: A Journey To The Rocky Mountains, Mormons And The Pacific States by Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel Bowles 9781498095693
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £38.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498095693Author Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint... -
Across the Continent: a Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax by Samuel Bowles 9780371204535
Booksplease Price: £20.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371204535Author Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 487Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Across the Continent: a Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax by Samuel Bowles 9780461558777
Booksplease Price: £20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461558777Author Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Across the Continent: a Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax by Samuel Bowles 9780371556214
Booksplease Price: £20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371556214Author Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Real Utopias Project: v. 3: Recasting Egalitarianism - New Rules for Communities, States and Markets by Samuel Bowles 9781859842553
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £15.96In Recasting Egalitarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the Left as a result of the obsolescence of its... -
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Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax. [With a Map.] by Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel Bowles 9781241311940
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241311940Author Professor Faculty of Economics Samuel BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint British... -
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £28.66Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished... -
Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis by Michael Reich 9780691629476
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £116.01In an investigation of the effects of racism on the American economy, Michael Reich evaluates the leading economic theories of racial inequality and presents the new theory that discrimination... -
Meritocracy and Economic Inequality by Kenneth Arrow
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £70.55Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural... -
Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education Alan R. Sadovnik (Rutgers University) 9781138222168
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.84This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and... -
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s by Marion Fourcade
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform... -
The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race Isaac Gottesman (University of Iowa, USA) 9781138781351
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in... -
A History of Marxian Economics, Volume II: 1929-1990 by Michael Charles Howard 9780691604138
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.43This second volume completes a critical history of the social, political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment. Beginning... -
Education, Power, and Personal Biography: Dialogues With Critical Educators by Carlos Alberto Torres
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these... -
Inequality Around the World by Richard B. Freeman 9780333773550
Booksplease Price: £90.56One of the most troubling developments of the past two decades has been the dramatic rise in inequality among nations and within nations. This book examines the nature of this development in a... -
The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It by Charles E. Lindblom 9780300093346
Booksplease Price: £15.80In this clear and accessible book, an eminent political scientist offers a jargon-free introduction to the market system for all readers, with or without a background in economics. "A balanced and... -
Institutions for Social Well Being: Alternatives for Europe by Lilia Costabile 9780230538061
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity. It argues for an integrated approach to economic and social... -
Explaining Culture Scientifically by Melissa J. Brown 9780295987897
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £12.78What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The... -
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life by John H. Miller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock... -
Institutions for Social Well Being: Alternatives for Europe by Lilia Costabile 9781349359653
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity. It argues for an integrated approach to economic and social... -
Game Theory by Steven Durlauf 9780230238909
Booksplease Price: £90.56Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading... -
Game Theory in Action: An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models by Stephen Schecter 9780691167657
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show...