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Who Elected Bankers? : Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (97 Edition)
by Louis W. Pauly  Publisher Comments A former banker and staff member of the International Monetary Fund, Louis W. Pauly explains why people are deeply concerned about the emergence of a global economy and the increasingly integrated capital markets at its heart. In nations as diverse as...
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Redesigning Distribution : Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants As Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism (05 Edition)
by Bruce Ackerman Publisher Comments Are There Ways That Contemporary Capitalism Can Be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book explores two proposals, unconditional basic income and stakeholder grants...
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Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World
by Alex Counts Publisher Comments Praise for Small Loans, Big Dreams I was enthralled to see the difference a few dollars loaned with no collateral in Bangladesh could benefit and change Chicago's poorest of the poor. I learned how pennies defeated myths about the poor. This book will...
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Group Behaviour & Development Is the Mar
by Judith Heyer Publisher Comments Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why. It covers groups that perform three types of function: overcoming market failures (e.g. producer organizations...
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by Alfred Dup Chandler Publisher Comments The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian,...
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Future Directions for Heterodox Economics (Advances in Heterodox Economics)
by John T. Harvey Publisher Comments Twenty-first-century economists will have to understand and improve a post-Cold War world in which no single economic theory or system holds the key to human betterment. Heterodox economists have much to contribute to this effort, as a wave of pluralism...
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The Development of Capitalism in Russia
by Vladimir Ilich Lenin Publisher Comments CONTENTS The Development of Capitalism in Russia The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists The Differentiation of the Peasantry The Landowners' Transition from Corvie to Capitalist Economy The Growth of Commercial Agriculture The First Stages...
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The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
by Robert L. Heilbroner Publisher Comments "...Robert L. Heilbroner has written an elegant, riveting account of the economic system under which we live".--Milton Moskowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review....
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Are the Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values
by Hunter Lewis Publisher Comments Are the rich compatible with democracy? Should we accept such a high degree of inequality in our society? Does the profit system glorify greed? In /Are the Rich Necessary?/ Hunter Lewis presents the most fundamental and provocative economic arguments...
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Wealth of Nature : How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment (03 Edition)
by Robert L. Nadeau Publisher Comments Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from...
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Economic Dynamics: Phase Diagrams and Their Economic Application 2nd Edition
by Ronald Shone Publisher Comments The substantially revised and restructured 2nd edition of Ron Shone??'s successful textbook Economic Dynamics....
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Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World
by Ervin Laszlo Publisher Comments A "macroshift" is a transformation of practically all aspects of life, from individual lifestyles to the global economy. Expert Ervin Laszlo argues that the macroshift now upon the planet is unprecedented in scope, and, reverberating as it does at every...
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Handbook of Experimental Economics (95 Edition)
by John H. (ed.) Kagel Publisher Comments The eight essays in this book present a comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. The first chapter provides an introduction to experimental economics as a whole, with the remaining chapters...
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Between Two Cultures: An Introduction to Economic History
by Carlo M Cipolla Synopsis In this wise and witty work, a world-renowned economic historian takes us behind the scenes to observe a small band of scholars reconstructing the past with the tools of economic analysis and the narrative power of the traditional historian....
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The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time
by John K Galbraith Publisher Comments John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the...
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The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World
by Richard Kozul-wright Publisher Comments In this empirically grounded analysis of the world economy during the past 20 years, two eminent economists focus on trade, financial flows and foreign direct investment. They find that the economic forces presumed to be crucial for spreading the...
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Whither Socialism?
by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which...
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Pioneers or Pawns?: Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen
by Marina De Regt Book News Annotation De Regt (International Institute for Social History, the Netherlands) examines the politics of development behind the training and employment of Yemeni women health workers in a Dutch-funded development project. Examining the life stories of different...
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Hidden Order: Economics of Everyday Life, the
by David Friedman Publisher Comments David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely...
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Routledge International Studies in Health Economics #6: Efficiency Measurement in Healthcare
by Bruce Hollingsworth Publisher Comments In recent decades, healthcare has become an ever more important subject as the ageing population in the developed world takes centre stage, and the perceived lack of efficiency and money-wasting present in many healthcare systems comes under the...
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