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Oxford University Press, USA Free Markets and Social Justice
Book SynopsisIn this title, Sunstein presents a wide-ranging analysis of free markets and their limits, and discussion of law and economics as a field. He explores "free markets" and social justice in three main parts. The book raises a number of questions about economic analysis of law in its conventional form.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. Sunstein is one of the leading legal scholars of his generation and this is an extremely timely subject, particularly in this era of regulatory embattlement."--Carol Rose, Yale Law School "This is a thought-provoking and important contribution to current public policy debate. Highly recommended for libraries at all levels."--Choice "Sunstein's stature among legal scholars is tremendous; his previous books have reflected an admixture of pathbreaking, provocative scholarship on many key law and policy debates today. Free Markets and Social Justice represents a valuable and important contribution to Sunstein's impressive ouevre."--Daniel B. Rodriguez, University of California School of Law, Berkeley "Sunstein captures again and again in this provocative and insightful book the ways in which context and the nature of our humanity shape preferences, and so need to be accounted for (as markets cannot do) in a political system that seeks to be just. Fortunately for us, his luminescent career has developed at the University of Chicago, in the midst of colleagues whom, as he puts it, could TRY to teach him something about economics, but more importantly provoke and help him to hone the skeptical responses that have so consistently animated his influential scholarship. This collection of essays, revised and shaped to persuasive unity, will be enormously helpful to all who wish to explore the uses and abuses of market reasoning in the political and legal sphere."--Peter L. Strauss, Columbia University "Sunstein is a man of many ideas, and this book is a splendid introduction to them."--Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School "Sunstein draws on his profound understanding of both economic theory and cognitive psychology to provide fresh insights into a variety of public policy issues."--Greg Saltzman, Albion College "This is an excellent book. Sunstein is one of the leading legal scholars of his generation and this is an extremely timely subject, particularly in this era of regulatory embattlement."--Carol Rose, Yale Law School "This is a thought-provoking and important contribution to current public policy debate. Highly recommended for libraries at all levels."--Choice "Sunstein's stature among legal scholars is tremendous; his previous books have reflected an admixture of pathbreaking, provocative scholarship on many key law and policy debates today. Free Markets and Social Justice represents a valuable and important contribution to Sunstein's impressive ouevre."--Daniel B. Rodriguez, University of California School of Law, Berkeley "Sunstein captures again and again in this provocative and insightful book the ways in which context and the nature of our humanity shape preferences, and so need to be accounted for (as markets cannot do) in a political system that seeks to be just. Fortunately for us, his luminescent career has developed at the University of Chicago, in the midst of colleagues whom, as he puts it, could TRY to teach him something about economics, but more importantly provoke and help him to hone the skeptical responses that have so consistently animated his influential scholarship. This collection of essays, revised and shaped to persuasive unity, will be enormously helpful to all who wish to explore the uses and abuses of market reasoning in the political and legal sphere."--Peter L. Strauss, Columbia University "Sunstein is a man of many ideas, and this book is a splendid introduction to them."--Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School "Sunstein successfully and eloquently lays out weighty arguments without making them seem ponderous."--Booklist "...coherent and pertinent.."--The Law and Politics Book Review "It is...a very clean and exquisitely written catalogue of the insights."--Journal of Economic Literature "This is an excellent overview of law and several public policy areas such as health, environment, information, and technology....the analysis of economics of law is well contrasted with constitutionalism to analyze "new public management" policies."--Brad Chilton, University of Toledo
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Oxford University Press, USA Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience
Book SynopsisOver the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems. Evidence of their dominance can be seen in recent proposals for addressing global warming (through an emissions trading scheme in the Kyoto Protocol) and for amending the Clean Air Act (to add a new emissions trading systems for smog precursors and mercury--the Bush administration''s Clear Skies program). They are widely viewed as more efficient than traditional command and control regulation. This collection of essays takes a critical look at this question, and evaluates whether the promises of market-based regulation have been fulfilled. Contributors put forth the ideas that few regulatory instruments are actually purely market-based, or purely prescriptive, and that both approaches can be systematically undermined by insufficiently careful design and by failures of monitoring and enforcement. All in all, the essays recommend future research that no longer pits one kind of approach against the other, but instead examines their interaction and compatibility. This book should appeal to academics in environmental economics and law, along with policymakers in government agencies and advocates in non-governmental organizations.
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Clarendon Press Real Freedom for All
Book SynopsisCapitalist societies are full of unacceptable inequalities. Freedom is of paramount importance. These two convictions are widely shared across the world. Yet they often seem in complete contradiction with each other. Fighting inequality jeopardizes freedom; taking freedom seriously boosts inequality. What can be done? Can the circle be squared? Philippe Van Parijs offers a ground breaking solution to the dilemma. Assessing and rejecting the claims of both socialism and conventional capitalism, he presents a clear and compelling alternative vision of the just society: a capitalist society offering a substantial unconditional basic income to all its members. Moving beyond pure political theory, Van Parijs shows what his ideal of free society means in the real world by drawing out its controversial policy implications. Real Freedom for All will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the just society and the welfare state as we move into the twenty first century.Trade ReviewReal Freedom for All is not just an exercise in political advocacy. It is an important piece of social philosophy on its own right. Although Van Parijs's main concern is to defend his own views, this book amounts to a critical guide through much of the recent literature on the topics it addresses. Professional philosophers will therefore find it stimulating and instructive, even as they take issue with one or another of its many controversial contentions. * Andrew Levine, The Philosophical Review, Vol.105 No.4 *Table of Contents1. Capitalism, Socialism, and Freedom ; 2. The Highest Sustainable Basic Income ; 3. Undominated Diversity ; 4. Jobs as Assets ; 5. Exploitation versus Real Freedom ; 6. Capitalism Justified
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Oxford University Press Stock Market Capitalism
Book SynopsisThis is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions dominant today in Britain and America-that managers should be intent solely on creating shareholder value and that shareholders'' financial logic alone should determine who buys what company on the stock exchange. That way efficiency (and hence global welfare) will be maximized.The Japanese and German advocates of full-bloodied market capitalism are not having it all their own way, however. In both countries there are articulate defenders of what they consider to be a better way of life, informed by a more human, more social-solidary, set of values. Dore traces the fascinating debates which ensue on corporate governance, on worker rights, on supplier relations, on cartels and anti-trust, on pensions and welfare. He also analyses actual changes in economic behaviour-an essential means of sorting out a lot of thTrade ReviewInsightful. * Financial Adviser *Interesting insights ... Dore has written a fascinating book on an important subject. There are so many middle-of-the-road books on the assumed merits of the Anglo-American model that it is indeed welcome, necessary and timely to see the other case made. The book deserves many readers, and they will be rewarded by highly stimulating and thought-provoking ideas and interpretations ... were it not for his commitment and involvement, we might have missed some of the most remarkable scholarship on Japan in recent decades. * Social Science Japan Journal *Professor Dore has written a thoughtful and provocative book on how global capitalism may evolve. Whether or not you agree with him - and many economists and CEOs will not - if you are interested in the future of the world economy, you should read this book. * Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of Management *Table of ContentsPART I. THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE MODEL ; PART II. CHANGE AND CONTROVERSY IN JAPAN ; PART III. GERMAN PARALLELS ; PART IV. CONCLUSION
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Oxford University Press Free Trade Nation
Book SynopsisOne of Britain''s defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to the growth of a democratic culture in Britain - and how it fell apart. Far from the cold economic doctrine of today, in an earlier battle over globalization Free Trade was a passionately held ideal, central to public life and national identity. Free Trade inspired popular entertainment and advertising, in seaside resorts, shows, and shopping streets. It mobilized an alliance of elites and the people, businessmen and working-class women, imperialists and internationalists. Free Trade Nation follows the creation of this culture in nineteenth-century Britain, and its subsequent unravelling in the First World War and the depression of the 1930s, when consumers and internationalists, labour and business now attacked it for sacrificing international stability and domestic Trade ReviewTrentmann has produced a valuable guide to free trade. * Journal of Liberal History *Here we have 'a human history of Free Trade' that is at once a delight to read and a cause of profound intellectual stimulation. It graphically brings alive - with splendid colour reproductions of propaganda posters too - the popular passions and prejudices of a world that suddenly ended during the First World War...This is a book imbued with fine scholarship, but one that deserves a wide readership * Peter Clarke, Times Literary Supplement *brilliant * Sunday Telegraph *This is terrific history that will inspire economists to remember their subject really can arouse passion. * Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor *...an inspired history...Trentmann's book unfolds a dramatic story...gripping * Neue Zuercher Zeitung *Thoughtful and well-researched. * Christopher Harvie, The Independent *[A] lucid history of free trade in Britain * David Connett, Sunday Express *a landmark in economic history and the history of ideas * La Vie des Idées *fascinating * Il Riformista *...paints a vivid picture of the ideological controversy over Free Trade that remains relevant to this day. * Luxemburger Wort *offers a fresh look at a chapter in British and world history, while at the same time providing a historical perspective on today's debate about globalisation, challenging the ways we have come to think about trade, justice and democracy. * Society Now *Frank Trentmann...has not only added a great deal to our knowledge through painstaking research but has written about it with verve and energy and produced a most readable volume. * Reviews in Economic and Business History *Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far-reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely-held belief marked by justice, fairness, and peace provocatively refashions the history of early-twentieth-century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality. * Professor John Brewer, California Institute of Technology *Absorbing * History Today *a fascinating book, wide ranging, detailed, well organized, and written in an engaging style * American Historical Review *Frank Trentmann's book will be the point of departure for any future scholarship on free trade... It is a ground-breaking study * European Review of History *...original and thought provoking...Trentmann's reconstruction of consumer politics is both persuasive and authoritative * History *...this impressive study...shows how liberalism turned into social democracy and how the arguments for and against Free Trade both shaped national life and embodied current views regarding man, government and society. After this book, no study of Victorian liberalism can be conducted in quite the same way. * Contemporary Review *In writing Free Trade Nation, Trentmann set out to tell the personal histories of free trade and also to write a new political history. He succeeds admirably on both accounts...Free Trade Nation should be read by anyone interested in the history of modern Britain. * British Scholar, 'Book of the Month' (December 2008) *...a major scholarly work [that] forces the reader to grapple with basic questions relating economics to politics, consumption to democracy, and offers the tools for doing so in a comparative, global frame...deserves to be read as much by citizens...as by scholars... Trentmann offers an important contribution, both to the history of Great Britain and to political history more generally. * Journal of Consumer Policy *immensely ambitious...an important and exciting book, whose arguments will need to be seriously addressed and assessed by students of both economic and political history. * Economic History Review *a brilliant book...rich and multi-faceted...full of unexpected insights...Not only a product of wonderful scholarship but also great fun... It is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern Britain. * English Historical Review *[a] brilliant achievement * Judges' citation for the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society *an important contribution to the cultural and social history of economic controversies. * Revue d'histoire du XIX siècle *Trentmann has written an excellent book, extensively and meticulously researched, thoughtful, nuanced, and eloquent...a book of enduring importance * Journal of British Studies *the novelty of this account lies in its pioneering attempt to turn the attention of political historians away from elections and parties towards an understanding of consumption and citizenship as central to the nature of political culture ...carefully constructed, engagingly written, finely illustrated, and suitably well-marketed. * H-Albion *Extremely timely * Nikkei (Japan) *Table of ContentsPART ONE: BUILDING A FREE TRADE NATION; PART TWO: UNRAVELLING
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Oxford University Press Debating Varieties of Capitalism
Book SynopsisPeter Hall and David Soskice''s Varieties of Capitalism has become a seminal text and reference point across the social sciences, generating debate and research around political-economic models. Here, Bob Hancké presents the key readings on ''Varieties of Capitalism'', including the original Hall and Soskice introduction, which encompass the key issues in the study of capitalism and capitalist diversity, its origins, and the debates that followed it. Beginning with the broad theoretical arguments around the idea of ''Varieties of Capitalism'', the book then goes on to focus on specific empirical controversies, before finally considering recent attempts at rethinking this influential framework. The Debating Varieties of Capitalism Reader is the perfect guide to understanding this set of ideas that have changed the way we look at comparative political economy.Table of ContentsPART 1: CAPITALIST DIVERSITY; PART 2: DEBATING VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM; PART 3: RETHINKING VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
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Oxford University Press, USA Flexicurity Capitalism
Book SynopsisAn intense debate has played out in recent years regarding how to implement a so-called flexicurity system-a labor market reform that combines flexibility, particularly in the hiring and firing process of firms, with security in the employment and income of the workforce. In Flexicurity Capitalism, Flaschel and Greiner lay out the macroeconomic structure of this system, providing the detailed mathematical models necessary to ponder seriously how such a system can work. Their book rests on three pillars of thought: Marx, Kalecki-Keynes, and Schumpeter. The authors highlight the relevant contributions from the work of each and build upon it. They in turn provide a basic framework for flexicurity capitalism and then compare their economic system to pure capitalism to determine the best and most practical way forward. Their scope is ambitious: to address the shortcomings of a narrow focus on mass unemployment, selective-schooling systems, property rights based solely on ownership without qTable of ContentsNotation ; Introduction ; 1 Marx: Socially Acceptable Capitalism? ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Theminimum wage debate ; 1.3 Sustainable social evolution through an unrestricted reserve army mechanism? ; 1.4 Classical growth dynamics ; 1.5 Hiring and firing, social security and restricted reserve army fluctuations ; 1.5.1 Human rights: Basic income and minimum wages ; 1.5.2 Capital's and labor's responsibility: Minimum wages and basic income ; needs ; 1.5.3 Capital's and labor's responsibility: Upper bounds for real wage increases ; 1.5.4 Automatic stabilizers: Blanchard and Katz error correction terms ; 1.6 Conclusions ; Appendix: Wage dynamics. A specific theoretical foundation ; 2 Kalecki: Full Employment Welfare Capitalism? ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Economic and political aspects of full employment ; 2.3 Themodel ; 2.4 The implied laws ofmotion ; 2.4.1 The DADmodule: multiplier and employment dynamics ; 2.4.2 The DAS module: real wage dynamic and capital accumulation ; 2.5 Steady state configurations and reduced-form3D dynamics ; 2.5.1 Balanced growth in the 4D dynamics ; 2.5.2 Reduced-form3D dynamics ; 2.6 Feedback structures ; 2.6.1 Feedback channels in KMGS growth ; 2.6.2 The feedback structure of the KGR model of capital accumulation ; and employment dynamics ; 2.6.3 A feedback-suggested local stability scenario ; 2.6.4 Consensus-based economies: Attraction towards accepted steady ; state positions ; 2.7 Local instability and global boundedness ; 2.7.1 Conflict-driven economies: Repelling steady state configurations ; 2.7.2 Kalecki-type upper turning points ; 2.7.3 Goodwin-type upper turning points? ; 2.7.4 Rose-type lower turning points ; 2.7.5 Goodwin-type lower turning points? ; 2.8 Numerical examples ; 2.9 Political aspects of the Kaleckian investment and employment cycle ; 2.9.1 Monetary policy ; 2.9.2 Fiscal policy ; 2.10 Conclusions ; 3 Schumpeter: Capitalism, Flexicurity and Democracy? ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 From Marxian reserve army to Schumpeter's competitive socialism and beyond ; 3.3 Flexicurity capitalism: budget equations, consumption and investment ; 3.3.1 Full-employment capitalism: Ideal, status-quo and compromises ; 3.3.2 Basic principles and problems ; 3.3.3 Sectoral accounts, consumption and investment ; 3.4 Dynamics: Stability and sustainability issues ; 3.4.1 Stability of balanced reproduction ; 3.4.2 Sustainability of balanced reproduction ; 3.5 Pension funds and credit ; 3.6 Education and schooling ; 3.6.1 The educational system: Basic structure and implications ; 3.6.2 Equal opportunities and life-long learning ; 3.7 Challenge I: Keynesian business fluctuations ; 3.8 Challenge II: Schumpeterian processes of 'creative destruction' ; 3.9 The future of capitalism: A brief appraisal ; 3.10 Elites in flexicurity societies ; 3.10.1 Basic aspects ; 3.10.2 Elite groups and areas of operation ; 3.10.3 Education: Foundation for administrative authority and social behavior ; 3.10.4 Career advancement and decent paths ; 3.10.5 Preferences, incentives and responsibilities ; 3.10.6 Elite failures ; 3.10.7 The remuneration of elites under flexicurity: A baseline proposal ; 3.10.8 A summing up ; 3.11 Price formation: Time dependent markup pricing around long-period prices ; of production ; 3.12 Conclusions and outlook ; Appendix 1: Stability of Balanced Reproduction ; Appendix 2: Sustainability of Balanced Reproduction ; 4 Unleashed Capitalism: The Starting Point for Societal Reform ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Real disequilibria, balanced portfolios and the real-financial markets interaction ; 4.3 A portfolio approach to KMG growth dynamics ; 4.3.1 Households ; 4.3.2 Firms ; 4.3.3 Fiscal and monetary authorities ; 4.3.4 The wage-price spiral ; 4.3.5 Capital markets: Gross substitutes and stability ; 4.3.6 Cumulative processes in capital gains expectations: Chartists' behavior251 ; 4.4 A baseline stability scenario ; 4.5 Likely outcomes of unleashed capitalism: Local instability and regime-switch ; induced viability ; 4.6 A further risk-bearing asset: Long-termbonds ; 4.6.1 Intensive form ; 4.6.2 Steady state ; 4.6.3 Comparative statics ; 4.6.4 Stability ; 4.6.5 Summary ; 4.7 Interest rate policy in the KMG portfolio approach ; 4.8 Conclusion ; 5 Conclusions ; Mathematical Appendix: Stability Theorems ; Notes ; References ; Index
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MIT Press Fair Division and Collective Welfare The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's equal treatment of equals was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distributive justice. Taking the modern axiomatic approach, it compares normative arguments of distributive justice and their relation to efficiency and collective welfare.The book begins with the epistemological status of the axiomatic approach and the four classic principles of distributive justice: compensation, reward, exogenous rights, and fitness. It then presents the simple ideas of equal gains, equal losses, and proportional gains and losses. The book discusses three cardinal interpretations of collective welfare: Bentham's utilitarian proposal to maximize the sum of individual utilities, the Na
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Penguin Random House LLC Whither Socialism Wicksell Lectures
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Yale University Press Run of the Red Queen
Trade ReviewWon a Bronze Medal for the 2012 Axiom Business Awards in the International Business/Globalization category. This award is sponsored by the Jenkins Group Winner of the Susan Strange Best Book Award for 2012, as given by the British International Studies Association “In this impressive, insightful, and now essential book, Breznitz and Murphree uncover and explain how China's system of innovation fits into a world of fragmented production and a rapidly expanding technological frontier. Our overly simplistic debates about which nations are catching up or falling behind will have to change. No one in the West will have a comprehensive understanding of the rise of China and its place in the current era of globalization until reading Run of the Red Queen.”—Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School “…Highlights the hot issues from a global as well as regional dimension with very deep knowledge of China.”—Xielin Liu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences “Run of the Red Queen gives us the smartest view of the most important question facing Beijing's economic planners: the sustainability of Chinese growth. The answers in Breznitz's and Murphree's important work are as intriguing as they are fresh.”—Gordon Chang, Author of The Coming Collapse of China “…Gives us an entirely new way of thinking about innovation and economic development. By focusing on the specific kinds of innovation that flourish in China, and the institutional and geographical factors at play, Breznitz and Murphree offer a fascinating and nuanced view of how technology is developing in the world's fastest growing economy.”—Arthur Kroeber, Editor, China Economic Quarterly“…A very valuable contribution to our understanding of the coevolution of public policy and industrial strategy in China. This penetrating study … is on my short list of must-reads of the best recent writing about innovation with Chinese characteristics.”—Song Lei, Peking University
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St Martin's Press Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economists Writings and Created the American Economy
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WW Norton & Co Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
Book SynopsisWalter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mindone pair of feetat a time.Trade Review"A fascinating book on the dynamics of sport, culture and capitalism in an era of American dominance." Time Out
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Basic Books A Capitalism for the People
Book SynopsisWhen the Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales came to the United States in the 1980s, he embraced the American Dream: the belief that what brings you success is hard work, not luck or who you know. But the economic events of the past decade have put American capitalism in crisis. Now, living in America''s heartland, Zingales warns in A Capitalism for the People that the U.S. economy risks deteriorating into a pro-business rather than pro-market system run by corrupt politicians. Presenting a real-world blueprint to restore true competition to our economic system, Zingales gives hope that the U.S. can rebound to greatness.Trade ReviewMarginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen "I know you have book fatigue, popular economics book fatigue, policy book fatigue, and books-with-subtitles-like-this fatigue, all at once. But this book is really, really good. It hits all the right notes, is clearly written, and refers to academics as the new crony capitalists. I agreed with almost all of it. If I had to pick out one book, of this entire lot of books, to explain what is going on right now to a popular audience of non-economists, this might well be it." J. Bradford DeLong, University of California, Berkeley "More than 30 years ago, Milton and Rose Director Friedman raised high the banner of small-government free-market libertarianism with their Free to Choose. Now, a generation later, income inequality is substantially higher, the globe is even more interconnected, and our partial financial deregulation has backfired badly. Luigi Zingales thus has a harder task as he tries to update the small-government free-market libertarian position for the 21st century. But he has done a very good job at it." Robert J. Shiller, author of Finance and the Good Society "This remarkably creative book, driven by a strong moral conviction, offers a bold array of ideas for us to ponder, so we can really make the American capitalist model work better for everyone." Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University "In A Capitalism for the People, Luigi Zingales joins the small but influential group of economists who see that America's economy is now more and more corporatist, less and less capitalist. His impressive account of our downhill slide is enriched by his deep knowledge of the harm wrought by the worst excesses of Italian crony capitalism. A must-read." Nell Minow, co-author of Corporate Governance and co-owner and board member of GMI Ratings "An especially accessible and holistic assessment of what went wrong in our financial markets and an especially thoughtful and constructive proposal for the future. Highly recommended!" Paul Ryan, U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin "In A Capitalism for the People, Luigi Zingales exposes the pernicious collusion of big business and big government -- offering the sharp analytical perspective of a world-renowned economist and the unique personal perspective of an immigrant living the American Dream. This must-read for policymakers and citizens alike serves as a lucid call to action for rediscovering what makes America exceptional." N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University, and author of Principles of Economics "A Capitalism for the People is a wise, deep, and timely book. With lively prose, Zingales diagnoses what is right and wrong with the U.S. economy. Whether your political sympathies lie with the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, or someplace in between, you will learn much about how we can best promote an economic future that works for all of us." The Economist "[A]n elegy to the America (Zingles) found when he moved here 24 years ago." Washington Post "[An] accessible and powerfully argued book." John R. Talbott, Huffington Post "[O]utstanding... I give the book my ultimate compliment; it is so full of new and innovative ideas that it makes you pause and think on every page." National Review"[W]e are fortunate to have an Italian-born economist so powerfully and persuasively defending America's once exceptional free-enterprise system." Co.Exist, a blog of Fast Company "Zingales is readable, engaging, and full of insight. A Capitalism For The People is worth the time of anyone, left or right, who cares about the future of the American market system." Futures Magazine "Luigi Zingales lays out the glaring defects that have come to corrode our current economic system in a very easy to understand picture... Recommended reading for those interested in the evolving nature of our interconnected system of government and the economy." Bloomberg View "[F]ascinating... Zingales provides an enormous service by laying out such persuasive evidence." National Review Online "[A Capitalism for the People] is the book that hits closest to the mark on the question of where the American center-right ought to go in the next few years." Sacramento Bee "Zingales offers more than rehashed Friedman or Hayek. It's a book that should appeal to tea partyers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd." Publishers Weekly "Zingales...presents a striking dichotomy... Engaging." Financial Times "Zingales's fundamental diagnosis is right... [T]his remains a stimulating essay on the nature of American capitalism and the issues that will determine the pace of America's relative decline."
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Lexington Books The Church and the Market A Catholic Defense of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 In Defense of Economics Chapter 3 Prices, Wages, and Labor Chapter 4 Money and Banking Chapter 5 The Economics and Morality of Foreign Aid Chapter 6 The Welfare State, the Family, and Civil Society Chapter 7 The Argument Restated: My Reply to a Critic Chapter 8 Answering the Distributist Critique Chapter 9 In Omnibus, Caritas
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Polity Press Social Movements in Times of Austerity
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life.Trade Review"This book, written by one of the foremost theorists of social movements, offers a new way to theorise the complex conjuncture of late neo-liberalism, a 'precariat' that includes the young and educated. and a legitimacy crisis of our political institutions and how this plays out in the squares of Europe, America and the Middle East."—Mary Kaldor, The London School of Economics "Scholars of social movements have largely ignored capitalism in recent years, but Donatella della Porta shows how a crisis of neoliberal capitalism has provided the main motives and solidarities for recent protests against economic austerity and political corruption. Hers is a very important and original attempt to bridge political economy and contentious politics."—Jeff Goodwin, New York University "Among scholars of contemporary social movements, della Porta is unique in combining inquiry about resources for mobilization, political cleavages, and diverse experiences of neoliberal capitalism.... Highly recommended." —Choice "Della Porta's argument is complex, but coherent and convincing. The book helps shed light on the political-economic dimension of anti-austerity protests. The renewed focus on capitalism resonates with the current debate on causes and effects of inequality (for example, Piketty, Stiglitz), and should trigger more research."—Thomas Mättig, Democratization "[A]n important novelty in the field of social movement studies. The successful attempt to combine an innovative theoretical framework with a rich and detailed empirical analysis of the recent (and less recent) global waves of protest pushes forward a significant renewal in the analytical toolkit of this discipline and an expansion of its research themes in a hitherto unexplored direction."—Journal of Economics and Political EconomyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 The Re-emergence of a Class Cleavage? Social Movements in Times of Austerity 1 2 Social Structure: Old Working Class, New Precariat, or Yet Something Different? 26 3 Identification Processes: Class and Culture 67 4 Lo Llaman Democracia Y No Lo Es: A Crisis of Political Responsibility 110 5 Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: Changing Conceptions of Democracy in Social Movements 157 6 Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis? Some Concluding Remarks 211 Notes 226 References 228 Index 247
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) In Pursuit of the Common Good
Book SynopsisAn entertaining, accessible history of the iconic Newman’s Own brand that also serves as a roadmap for foundations and charitable organizations looking to do the most good they can with what they have. Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman’s Own—the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most successful.It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet shops with bottles of their homemade salad dressing. The venture was intended to be a lark, a way to poke fun at the traditional way the market operates. Hurdling obstacle after obstacle, they created the first company to mass-market all-natural products, eliminating the chemicals, gums, and preservatives that existed in food at the time. This picaresque saga is the inspiring story of how the two friends parlayed the joke into a multimill
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Cambridge University Press Aberrant Capitalism
Book SynopsisThe corporation was a timely emergent phenomenon of the capitalist system. However, with various transitions, capitalism's reputation has become tarnished and its purpose distorted. This Element ends with the promise of another emergent era, via the corporations of the digital age.
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