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  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    by Eric Williams ...
    Series series World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Economics, Economists and Expectations

    From Microfoundations to Macroapplications

    by William Darity, Robert Leeson, Warren Young ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such figures as Hicks, Hawtrey and Hart. The accounts of the ' ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    The Black Reparations Project

    A Handbook for Racial Justice

    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning Committee—who have considered the issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Capitalism and Slavery

    Third Edition

    by Eric Williams ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    by Gary S. Becker ...
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  • The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

    by Gary S. Becker ...
    A collection of essays analyzing the economic factors underlying human decision-making from the Nobel Prize–winning American economist.Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this ... Read more

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  • A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond

    by Michel De Vroey ...
    This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct methodological standards. In the Keynesian era, the book studies the following theories: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetarism, disequilibrium macroeconomics ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Institutions and Economic Theory

    The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

    by Eirik G. Furubotn, Rudolf Richter ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political science. In addition to updated references, new material includes analysis of parallel developments in the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Regional Economics

    by Roberta Capello ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of regional economics. This fully revised edition includes key theoretical developments of the last ten years.Topics included span from the earliest location theories to the most recent regional growth theories. It is also is also enriched by the recent debate on smart specialization strategies recently ... Read more

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  • Conceptualizing Capitalism

    Institutions, Evolution, Future

    by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    "Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

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  • The Chicago School

    How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business

    by Johan Van Overtveldt ...
    This "admirably detailed and thoroughly welcome history" provides a fascinating examination of a pivotal moment in the evolution of economic theory ( The Economist).When Richard Nixon said "We are all Keynesians now" in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, ... Read more

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  • Imagined Futures

    by Jens Beckert ...
    Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize. ... Read more

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