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  • Social Coordination and Public Policy

    Explorations in Theory and Practice

    by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Mikolaj Firlej, Olivia Gonzalez, M. Nolan Gray, Ellen Hamlett, Roberta Q. Herzberg, Alexander Köhler, Carlos Noyola, Emil Panzaru, Gavin Roberts, Julie Thompson-Gomez1, Arthur R. Wardle2, Brianne Wolf3 ...
    Series series Economy, Polity, and Society
    This volume explores, both in theory and in practice, what “social coordination” is and how public policies can help or hinder the processes of social coordination. In particular, these chapters examine the institutional incentives that motivate public policy decisions and their implementation to achieve specific individual and social goals. Some chapters in this volume are more theoretical, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Ayn Rand's Contributions to Economic and Business Thought

    by Bryan Caplan, Eric B. Dent, Steven Horwitz, Edwin A. Locke, John A. Parnell, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Samuel Bostaph, Stephen Hicks, Jerry Kirkpatrick, William Kline0, Richard M. Salsman1, Prof Edward W. Younkins2 ...
    Series series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
    Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Liberal Learning and the Art of Self-Governance

    Edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume seek to understand better what it is that can be done on a day-to-day basis within ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development

    Urban Female Entrepreneurship in Ghana

    by Emily Chamlee-Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
    Chalmlee-Wright argues that international aid programmes have often been unsuccessful because they are imported. The economics of the Austrian School provide a far stronger theoretical framework which can introduce cultural analysis into questions of economic development and other market processes. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Culture and Enterprise

    The Development, Representation and Morality of Business

    by Emily Chamlee-Wright, The late Don Lavoie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    What is the animating 'spirit' behind what may appear to be the coldly calculating world of markets and business enterprise? Though often mathematically modelled in dry terms, markets can be looked at instead as meaningful domains of human activity. To economists, markets have been seen as nothing but objective 'forces' or allocation 'mechanisms'. This book, however, argues that they can be seen ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery

    Social Learning in a post-disaster environment

    by Emily Chamlee-Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
    In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made their lives "work". Katrina raised the questions of whether and how communities could solve the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Marketplace of Ideas

    Reform and Resistance in the American University

    by Louis Menand ...
    "Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street JournalThe publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Theory for the Working Sociologist

    by Fabio Rojas ...
    Theory for the Working Sociologist makes social theory easy to understand by revealing sociology's hidden playbook. Fabio Rojas argues that sociologists use four different theoretical "moves" when they try to explain the social world: how groups defend their status, how people strategically pursue their goals, how values and institutions support each other, and how people create their social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Professionalism Reborn

    Theory, Prophecy and Policy

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today. ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Development

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Goldin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years.The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Feminist Theory

    From Margin to Center

    by bell hooks ...
    When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist ... Read more

    $38.99 USD