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  • Justice Is an Option

    A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert Meister ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out “too big to fail” banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has shaken the foundations of our political order. Meanwhile, financial capitalism seems more entrenched than ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • After Evil

    A Politics of Human Rights

    by Robert Meister ...
    The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Nature of Money

    by Geoffrey Ingham ...
    In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Capital and Time

    For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason

    by Martijn Konings ...
    Series series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major economic crises? To make sense of this, Capital and Time advances an understanding of economy as a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Profiting Without Producing

    How Finance Exploits Us All

    by Costas Lapavitsas ...
    Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of non-financial enterprises, banks and households. Its most prominent feature is the rise of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Money and Credit

    A Sociological Approach

    by Bruce G. Carruthers, Laura Ariovich ...
    Series series Economy and Society
    This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, as they did in the new millennium’s global financial crisis, their importance becomes obvious and demands further investigation.Bruce Carruthers and Laura Ariovich examine the social dimensions of money ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Problem with Banks

    by Lena Rethel, Timothy J. Sinclair ...
    Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In this provocative and timely book, Rethel and Sinclair seek answers to these questions, arguing that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Pillars of Prosperity

    The Political Economics of Development Clusters

    by Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson ...
    Series series The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures
    How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics

    Essays in Honour of Ingrid Rima

    Edited by Mathew Forstater, Gary Mongiovi, Steven Pressman ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Edited by three very well known academics in the field and contributed to by John Smithin, Laurence Moss and G. C. Harcourt, this volume reflects the breath of the honouree‘s interests and as such it covers a wide range of topics including political economy, labour economics, history of economic thought and macroeconomics.Ingrid Rima, one of the fi ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Finance

    by Robert Holton ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose – and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by:setting markets and financial market failure in a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD