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  • Across The Continent - A Summer's Journey To The Rocky Mountains, The Mormons And The Pacific States

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    This early travelogue is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details of Samuel Bowles’s travels through North America and his experiences along the way. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cooperative Species

    Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

    by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis ...
    A thought-provoking scientific exploration of the evolutionary origins of human cooperation.Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Moral Economy

    Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.   But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution

    Edited by Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles, Michael Wallerstein ...
    Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Unequal Chances

    Family Background and Economic Success

    Edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves ...
    Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Politics and Economics of Power

    Edited by Samuel Bowles, Maurizio Franzini, Ugo Pagano ...
    Series series Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy
    This edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - traditionally the focus of political science - is becoming increasingly important to economists in order to understand concepts such as the 'contested nature' of market exchanges. These papers examine power relations in the fi ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • After the Waste Land

    Democratic Economics for the Year 2000

    by Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf ...
    This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Poverty Traps

    Edited by Samuel Bowles, Karla Hoff, Steven N. Durlauf ...
    Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, Karla Hoff, and the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Federico Caffè Lectures
    Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced in many economies are detrimental to the economy. Moreover, recent economic experiments and other evidence confirm that most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    This poignant philosophy about the human capacity for love in the face of tragedy from the New York Times–bestselling author is as relevant today as it was when it was first broadcast.Transcribed from a series of recorded conversations streamed over German public radio in 1970, the profound ideas and thoughts collected in this volume represent a lifetime of the renowned psychoanalyst and social ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

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    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Wisdom
    Not just the stories, but what they mean. Are myths really the repositories of deep wisdom and mystical secrets?Readers' Favorite Book Award WinnerWhat is myth, and why does it have such a hold on the human imagination? How does myth relate to near forms such as legend and fairy tale, and to other modes of understanding such as religion and science? What is a hero, what is a monster, and what ... Read more

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  • 101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space

    by Mark S. Thompson ...
    The author of A Space Traveller's Guide to the Solar System shares 101 fascinatingly fun facts sure to change how you see outer space—and Earth.Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate? Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Facts You Didn't ... Read more

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