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  • Understanding the Private–Public Divide

    Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons

    by Avner Offer ...
    Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private, public, and social activity. Understanding the Private–Public Divide accounts for the division of labour between business and the public sector, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Nobel Factor

    The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn

    by Avner Offer, Gabriel Söderberg ...
    How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldEconomic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world—the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Taxation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state. Tax revenues pay for public services - roads, the courts, defence, welfare assistance to the poor and elderly, and in many countries much of health care and education too. More than one third of national income in the industrialized (OECD) countries is on average taken in taxation. Taxes affect individuals in many ways. Taxes paid on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Free Lunch

    Easily Digestible Economics

    by David Smith ...
    'Free of jargon, obfuscation and interminable subordinate clauses, his prose is just the job' The TimesA fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide.The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics. But why not? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The State We're In

    (Revised Edition)

    by Will Hutton ...
    The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years. It is now updated for the paperback edition. ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Free Lunch Thinking

    8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

    by Tom Bergin ...
    Countries with smaller governments grow faster.Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking.Government regulation discourages entrepreneurshi****p.Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas and the workers, businesspeople and consumers who have felt their impacts, finds they ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Safety Net

    The Future of Welfare in Australia

    by Daniel Mulino ...
    The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • From Wall Street to Bay Street

    The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian Finance

    by Joe Martin, Chris Kobrak ...
    The 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe and triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the crisis relatively well and maintained its liquidity and profitability. The divergence in the two banking systems can be traced to their distinct institutional and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis: Prospects For Recovery

    by Stephen Kinsella & Anthony Leddin ...
    This book looks at how Ireland as a small open economy can prosper in the medium term. It contains recommendations from Irelands top economic and policy commentators for boosting and sustaining the post-crisis economy. The book is policy relevant accessible and written to stimulate public debate. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Keynes's Vision

    Why the Great Depression did not Return

    by John Philip Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following the Second World War. This new book by John Philip Jones describes the main features of Keynes's work, including the fiscal and monetary policies he recommended, together with a detailed trackin ... Read more

    $77.99 USD