Theory
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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
$29.99 Add to cartWe are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by c
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407437X
- Language: English
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Who Gets What — And Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
$18.00 Add to cart“In his fluent and accessible book, Mr. Roth vividly describes the successes of market design.” — Economist.com?
“In this fascinating, often surprising book, Alvin Roth guides us through the jungles- Author: Roth, Alvin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705289
- Language: English
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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It’s Going
$17.99 Add to cartIn its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose–to explain that mysterious thing called economics–with a new urgency.
It is announced in the first sentence of the introduc- Author: Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0684846411
- Language: English
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Sun Also Sets: Limits to Japan’s Economic Power
$20.95 Add to cartA noted expert in the field of economics analyzes Japan’s rise to economic power and its perceived threat to American interests, arguing that Japan’s current economic status will not continue into the… [more below]
- Author: Emmott, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0671735861
- Language: English
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
$16.99 Add to cartDistinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The Gene… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1573921394
- Language: English
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The National System of Political Economy – Imperium Press
$30.00 Add to cartFriedrich List is the father of economic nationalism and the historical school of economics. Responding to Adam Smith’s free market apologetics, in The National System of Political Economy List provid
- Author: List, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1922602353
- Language: English
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
$16.95 Add to cartWhat Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer society
Who was the greater economist-Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an econ- Author: Frank, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0691156689
- Language: English
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How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction
$16.95 Read moreA fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs)
Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the cour- Series: How to Teach
- Author: Campbell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546180
- Language: English
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How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
$24.00 Add to cartA provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes
What constitutes the good life?- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1590516346
- Language: English
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Ecosynomics: The Science of Abundance
$29.99 Add to cartThis book addresses fundamental questions of the quality of the human experience-the experience you have every day, as you relate to your own self, to others, to groups, to nature, and to spirit. It t… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie-Dunham, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0990715302
- Language: English
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Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
$24.95 Read moreThe scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as dive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #49
- Author: Sornette, Didier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175950
- Language: English
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One Choice, One World: The Rise of the Well-Being and Happiness Economy
$24.95 Read moreThe world today is mired in a state of unprecedented chaos. Humanity is plagued by climate change, stark wealth inequality, and rampant political conflict. How did we get here? More importantly, how c… [more below]
- Author: Tsao, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1590795547
- Language: English
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Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies: A Behavioral Lens
$47.93 Add to cartThe latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs.
- Series: Behaviorally Informed Organizations
- Author: Zhao, Jiaying
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1487545177
- Language: English
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Sleepers Awake
$15.95 Add to cartSleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as novelistic fantasy–a pioneering new dir… [more below]
- Author: Patchen, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201473
- Language: English
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Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
$22.95 Add to cartHow identity influences the economic choices we make
Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities-and not just economic in- Author: Akerlof, George A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0691152551
- Language: English
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The Commanding Heights
$22.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power sh… [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 068483569X
- Language: English
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An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
$36.17 Add to cartA Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April
Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave? Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie? Should- Author: Schrager, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02, 2019
- ISBN10: 0525533966
- Language: English
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The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Business and Society
$28.00 Add to cartOver 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this syst
- Author: Beinhocker, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1422121038
- Language: English
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Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe make choices all the time–about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #71
- Author: Allingham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803034
- Language: English
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Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
$23.95 Add to cartExpanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein’s classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.
This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capit- Author: Eisenstein, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1623175763
- Language: English
