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Economic theory & philosophy

Paperback. Why worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous - artificial 'needs' created by high-pressure advertising? Why begrudge expenditure on vital public works while ignoring waste and extravagance in the private sector of the economy? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002243
ISBN
9780140285192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A leading philosopher shows how the story of Ajax and Odysseus sheds new light on the contentious issue of disproportionate rewards in contemporary American society. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCA; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199356881
ISBN
9780199356881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.43

Paperback. Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of 'civilization'. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745632094
ISBN
9780745632094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.26

Paperback. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, as well as that of economists, sociologists, historians, geographers, feminists, and post-Marxists, this book presents an anthropological approach to economy that highlights the centrality of communal processes in the market. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225676
ISBN
9780631225676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.36

Hardback. This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms. Num Pages: 408 pages, 39 figures, drawings, photographs, references, index. BIC Classification: AB; HP; KCA; KJMV7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748131
ISBN
9780804748131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.36
€ 73.22

Paperback. The Boundaries of Technique offers an account of economics as a purposive - that is, human - enterprise. It draws on a thorough account of human action in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. Both authors give an account of reason in human action, and the place of technique in moral life. Series: Studies in Ethics and Economics. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739107072
ISBN
9780739107072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.23

Paperback. Demonstrates that under capitalism, the process central to growth is geographical industrialization, and that the creation and use of territory is fundamental to economic development. Beginning with the economics of disequilibrium growth, this title reveals the technological, organizational and political foundations of industrialization. Num Pages: 292 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JPA; KCA; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631165330
ISBN
9780631165330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

Hardcover. Andrea Gabor recounts the development of modern business through the lives, times and ideas of the great thinkers -- people such as Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, Abraham Maslow -- who defined the art and science of business. Num Pages: 398 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KCA; KCS; KCZ; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471492474
ISBN
9780471492474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JHBL; JHMC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171922
ISBN
9780231171922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.77

Paperback. This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy. Num Pages: 440 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590. The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years. 438 pages, 9 b/w illus. This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: KCA; KCZ. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 24. Weight: 598.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
438
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107621336
ISBN
9781107621336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.86

Hardcover. Consists of David Cass' early work from his time in graduate school at Stanford University, studying under Hirofumi Uzawa, and as an assistant professor at Yale's Cowles Commission, and his tenure at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. Editor(s): Spear, Stephen. Series Editor(s): Barnett, William A. Series: International Symposia in Economic Theory & Econometrics. Num Pages: 377 pages, ill. BIC Classification: KCA; KCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
377
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857246417
ISBN
9780857246417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.79

Hardcover. Consists of the work David Cass completed after leaving Carnegie Mellon for the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Department (where he remained for the rest of his career). Editor(s): Spear, Stephen. Series Editor(s): Barnett, William A. Series: International Symposia in Economic Theory & Econometrics. Num Pages: 350 pages, ill. BIC Classification: KCA; KCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857246431
ISBN
9780857246431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 766 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1148.
Edition
Liberty Fund Pb
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865976504
ISBN
9780865976504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Liberty Fund
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865976573
ISBN
9780865976573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 847 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1304.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865976917
ISBN
9780865976917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.03

Paperback. The most provocative book written by any economist of Keynes's generation, propounding a fundamentally new approach that revolutionised economics. Editor(s): Johnson, Elizabeth; Moggridge, Donald. Series: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Num Pages: 451 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCBM; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
451
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107673731
ISBN
9781107673731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.28

Paperback. Intended for those seeking to understand ideas that have become the orthodoxy in the age of the globalized economy. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415404242
ISBN
9780415404242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. Ben S. Bernanke's rise to chair of the Fed, the massive financial crisis, and the Fed's bold and effective response. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; BGBA; JPH; KCA; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 242 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1082.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393247213
ISBN
9780393247213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.26

Paperback. Examines "the great contraction" of 2007 - 2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. Summarizing a large amount of troubling data, the authors show that manufacturing has declined from 40 percent of GDP to under 10 percent over the years. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 line illustrations, 6 charts, 21 tables. BIC Classification: KCA; KFF; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072244
ISBN
9780674072244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.97

Paperback. Concerned with the origins of capitalism and the conditions that accompanied its birth, this work argues that capitalism is more than an economic system: it is a culture that affects not just the material but also the social, familial and even spiritual bases of existence. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPF; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631165576
ISBN
9780631165576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.85

Paperback. Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender. Editor(s): Jameson, Fredric; Miyoshi, Masao. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH; JPA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Highlighting, Underlined
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321699
ISBN
9780822321699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? This title predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. It argues that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
With a New afterword by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156682
ISBN
9780691156682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.30

Paperback. Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848139220
ISBN
9781848139220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCF; KCZ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179010
ISBN
9780231179010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.68

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