Economic theory & philosophy
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 59.86
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 151.79
€ 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
€ 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
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865976573
- ISBN
- 9780865976573
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.68
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.85
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 24.99
€ 18.68