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  • The World Trade Organization

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Prof. David Collins ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    One of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world, the WTO is a lynchpin of globalization, allowing us to enjoy products and services from around the globe. However, it also lays bare the frailty of many industries, leading some to claim that it stokes unemployment and harms the developing world.In this engaging introduction, David Collins examines the goals of the WTO and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production

    by Karl Marx ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and ... Read more

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  • Spain

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by William Chislett ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know® series, veteran journalist William Chislett provides much-needed political and historical context ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

    by Benjamin M. Friedman ...
    From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why I Am A Democratic Socialist and Not A Tea Party Republican Capitalist

    by Ed Weiss ...
    Capitalism and the corporate form it creates is over-rated and neither are understood. Capitalism and that corporate form restrain your choice. They both present us with either an absence of choice or meaningless ones. Democratic Socialism doesn't do either. Democratic Socialism means more real and freer choices. Ed tells all the why, the what and the who. Economics, politics, and ideology aren't ... Read more

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  • Counting for Nothing

    What Men Value and What Women are Worth

    by Marilyn Waring ...
    Series series Heritage
    Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development consultant, writer, and goat farmer, isolates the gender bias that exists in the current ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Re-Forming Capitalism

    Institutional Change in the German Political Economy

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Freedom for Sale

    Why the World Is Trading Democracy for Security

    by John Kampfner ...
    Democratic liberalism v. authoritarianism -- the ideological divide that defined the twentieth century. But when the cold war ended, "the end of history"; was proclaimed. Soon the fire of freedom would burn worldwide, the experts said. And where markets were freed, human rights would inevitably follow.Or not. In the last twenty years, nations including India, Russia, China and the United Arab ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Is Capitalism Obsolete?

    A Journey through Alternative Economic Systems

    by Giacomo Corneo ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    After communism collapsed in the former Soviet Union, capitalism seemed to many observers like the only game in town, and questioning it became taboo for academic economists. But the financial crisis, chronic unemployment, and the inexorable rise of inequality have resurrected the question of whether there is a feasible and desirable alternative to capitalism. Against this backdrop of growing ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • East Asian Development

    Foundations and Strategies

    by Dwight H. Perkins ...
    Series Book 13 - The Edwin O. Reischauer lectures
    In the early 1960s fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China's per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in rural South Korea put it among the world's poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkinsdraws on extensive experience in the region to explain how Asia sustained such rapid economic growth in ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

    by Bharat Hazari ...
    First published in 1978. This book provides a simple, systematic, yet rigorous treatment of the key aspects of the pure theory of international trade and distortions. The opening chapter presents the standard two-factor, two-commodity barter model of international trade and a comprehensive treatment of the important properties and relationships. The rest of the book consists of four sections: ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress

    by Randall Holcombe ...
    Series series Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
    Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic mainstream literature on economic growth, before moving on to distinguish growth from progress.The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD