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  • Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

    How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for 'economic man,' arguing that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. It's an ironic point of view ... Read more

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    Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

    A Story of Women and Economics

    Narrated by Laura Jennings ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 17 min

    How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for the “economic man.” He argued that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. It's an ironic point of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Mother of Invention

    How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

    Narrated by Beth Hicks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias skews innovation, technology, history, and work, by Swedish journalist Katrine MarçalIt all starts with a rolling suitcase.The wheel was invented some five thousand years ago and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and ... Read more

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  • A Little History of Economics

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    A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field“A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer.”—Laura Garmeson, Financial TimesWhat causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention ... Read more

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  • Virtue Hoarders

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  • Superabundance

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    Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued that “The world's rapidly growing population is consuming the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources … [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030.” But is ... Read more

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  • New Ideas from Dead Economists

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    **"If you read only one economics book this year, read this one.”—Larry Summers, Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President ObamaA must-read for students of economics, New Ideas from Dead Economists offers an entertaining and accessible introduction to the great economic thingers throughout history.**Through the teachings of Adam Smith, ... Read more

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  • Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

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  • Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

    A Story of Economic Discovery

    by David Warsh ...
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  • Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners

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    Marx's 'Das Kapital' cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics history economics philosophy and even in places literature (yes Marx's style is that rich and evocative). Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners is an introduction to the Marxist critique of capitalist production and its consequences for a whole range of social activities such as politics media education and ... Read more

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  • Economic Principles

    The Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics

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    For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh's column, "Economic Principals." This collection shows why. Taken as a whole, Warsh's writings amount to a vast and colorful group portrait of the personalities who dominate modem economics -- from the luminaries to unknown soldiers to eccentrics who add sparkle to the tapestry ... Read more

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