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  • The Enigma of Climate Inaction

    Why Are We Doing Nothing (or Almost Nothing) in the Face of Catastrophe?

    by Frédéric Samama ...
    The Enigma of Climate Inaction explores humanity’s perplexing passivity in the face of the looming climate crisis—despite our having known about it for decades, the fact that we brought it into existence, and the existential threat it poses to our species.Drawing on cutting-edge insights from cognitive science, anthropology, history, economy, finance, and philosophy, Samama argues that our success ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing

    Edited by Patrick Bolton, Frederic Samama, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars. Recently emerging as a major force in global financial markets, SWFs have other distinctive features besides their state-owned status: they are mainly located in developing countries and are intimately tied to energy and commodities exports, and they carry ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Securitization of Society

    Crime, Risk, and Social Order

    by Marc Schuilenburg ...
    Translated by George Hall ...
    Series Book 12 - Alternative Criminology
    Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role.In The Securitization of Society, Marc ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Philosophy of Economics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Julian Reiss ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered.Throughout, philosophical issues are illustrated by and analysed in the context of concrete cases drawn from ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Cunning of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny ...
    Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Optimally Irrational

    The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do

    by Lionel Page ...
    For a long time, economists have assumed that we were cold, self-centred, rational decision makers – so-called Homo economicus; the last few decades have shattered this view. The world we live in and the situations we face are of course rich and complex, revealing puzzling aspects of our behaviour. Optimally Irrational argues that our improved understanding of human behaviour shows that apparent ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks

    by Paul Frijters ...
    Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

    by Heather E. Douglas ...
    The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the democratic process. Some scientists have been given considerable epistemic authority in shaping policy on issues of great moral and cultural significance, and the politicizing of these issues has become highly contentious. Since ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Our War on Ourselves

    Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth

    by Willem H. Vanderburg ...
    Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

    Edited by Peter Bearman, Peter Hedström ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Reflexivity and Economics

    George Soros's theory of reflexivity and the methodology of economic science

    Edited by John Davis, D. Hands ...
    The form of ‘reflexivity’ – defined by the dictionary as that which is ‘directed back upon itself’ – that is most relevant to economic methodology is that where observation of the economy leads to ideas that change behavior, which in turn changes (is directed back upon) the economy itself. As George Soros explains: "if investors believe that markets are efficient then that belief will change the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD