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  • Social Limits to Growth

    by Fred Hirsch ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Fred Hirsch's Social Limits Growth is one of the sleeper hits of economics. Its brilliant and acute insights, informed by Hirsch’s experience as a journalist at The Economist before turning to academia, have become ever more relevant as liberal capitalism confronts challenges from austerity to the global race for scarce resources.Hirsch makes the case for what he calls "positional goods", which ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    by Douglass C. North ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • Responsibility for Justice

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Debra Satz ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    What's wrong with markets in everything? Markets today are widely recognized as the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. And with the collapse of communism and rise of globalization, it's no surprise that markets and the political theories supporting them have seen a considerable resurgence. For many, markets are an all-purpose remedy for the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    by David Harvey ...
    Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • What It Means to Be a Libertarian

    A Personal Interpretation

    by Charles Murray ...
    Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Machinery of Government

    Public Administration and the Liberal State

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Economics

    by Shalini Saxena ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    The effects of economic decision making are far-reaching. Economics is more than just business—the course of government, society, and more has been determined, to a large degree, by economic players. This comprehensive volume takes a three-pronged approach to introduce readers to the essentials of economics: after providing an overview of basic economic concepts, it chronicles the development of ... Read more

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  • The Class Matrix

    Social Theory after the Cultural Turn

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture—that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around us rather than the ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

    by Daniel Hausman, Michael McPherson, Debra Satz ...
    This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores the idea of rationality and its connections to ethics, arguing that when they defend their formal ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Equality and Efficiency REV

    The Big Tradeoff

    by Arthur M. Okun ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1975, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff is a very personal work from one of the most important macroeconomists of the last hundred years. And this new edition includes ""Further Thoughts on Equality and Efficiency,"" a paper published by the author two years later.In classrooms Arthur M. Okun may be best remembered for Okun's Law, but his lasting legacy is the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Realizing Hope

    Life Beyond Capitalism

    by Michael Albert ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree.Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. Participatory economics - parecon for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD