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Random House USA Inc The Coming Collapse of China
Book SynopsisChina is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society. Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party p
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University of Minnesota Press Building Dignified Worlds
Book Synopsis Building Dignified Worlds investigates social movements that do not simply protest but actively forge functional alternatives. Gerda Roelvink takes actor network and performativity theories of action as starting points for thinking about how contemporary collectives bring the new into being.Trade Review"A fantastic contribution to contemporary post-structuralist geographic thought that elaborates new politics of social change."—Marianna Pavlovskaya, Hunter College, SUNY"Building Dignified Worlds is a lively and inspiring book that journeys among collectives who invent and experiment with new forms of economic organizations."—Michel Callon, École des mines de Paris"Roelvink’s writing effortlessly carries the reader from beginning to end."—Environment & Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Geographies of Collective Action1. The Discontents of Knowing Neoliberalism2. Spatializing Economic Concerns3. Affective Collective Action4. Transforming Markets5. Dignified Humanity, Dignified WorldConclusion: Doing Research TogetherAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Rules for International Monetary Stability Past
Book SynopsisSince the end of the Great Recession in 2009 the central banks of the advanced countries have taken unprecedented actions to reflate and stimulate their economies. There have been significant differences in the timing and pace of these actions, and they have had spillover effects on the strategies of other advanced countries. This book focuses on these issues.
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd A New Model of the Economy
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Michigan State University Press Rostow Kennedy and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid
Book SynopsisThis work analyzes the influence of the economic historian Walt Whitman Rostow's theory of the stages of economic growth on US foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s. It culminates in a case study of Rostow's influence on President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress to develop Latin America.
£27.62
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Building Equitable Cities
Book SynopsisHow can cities promote economic mobility, advance equity, and drive growth? Through an analysis of best practices, proven policies, and case study examples, this volume offers practical insights into how communities can expand opportunity for more citizens and boost economic expansion. The book provides real world examples of successful place-based and people-based strategies.
£17.95
Random House USA Inc The Human Network How Your Social Position
Book SynopsisHere is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures—our human networks—shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail to assimilate basic facts, and enlarge our understanding of patterns of contagion—from the spread of disease to financial crises. Despite their primary role in shaping our lives, human networks are often overlooked when we try to account for our most important political and economic practices. Matthew O. Jackson brilliantly illuminates the complexity of the social networks in which we are—often unwittingly—positioned and aims to facilitate a deeper appreciation of why we are who we are.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Analytical Political Economy
Book SynopsisOffering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject. Includes a wide range of topics and theoretical approaches that are critically and thoroughly reviewedContributions within the book are written according to the highest standards of rigor and clarity that characterize academic workProvides comprehensive and well-organized surveys of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work covering an exceptionally wide range of areas and fieldsTopics include macroeconomic theories of growth and distribution; agent-based and stock-flow consistent models; financialization and Marxian price and value theoryInvestigates exploitation theory; trade theory; the role of expectations and animal spirits' on macroeconomic performance as well as empirical research in Marxian economicsTable of Contents1. Analytical Political Economy 1Roberto Veneziani and Luca Zamparelli 2. Taking Stock: A Rigorous Modelling of Animal Spirits in Macroeconomics 5Reiner Franke and Frank Westerhoff 3. The Agent-Based Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-Modeling 39Corrado Di Guilmi 4. Stock-Flow Consistent Macroeconomic Models: A Survey 63Michalis Nikiforos and Gennaro Zezza 5. Heterodox Theories of Economic Growth and Income Distribution:A Partial Survey 103Amitava Krishna Dutt 6. Endogenous Technical Change in Alternative Theories of Growth and Distribution 139Daniele Tavani and Luca Zamparelli 7. Minsky Models: A Structured Survey 175Maria Nikolaidi and Engelbert Stockhammer 8. Financialization and Investment: A Survey of the Empirical Literature 207Leila E. Davis 9. Quantitative Empirical Research in Marxist Political Economy: A Selective Review 237Deepankar Basu 10. Value, Price, and Exploitation: The Logic of the Transformation Problem 269Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani 11. A Progress Report on Marxian Economic Theory: On the Controversies in Exploitation Theory Since Okishio (1963) 307Naoki Yoshihara 12. South–South and North–South Economic Exchanges: Does it Matter who is Exchanging What and with Whom? 339Omar S. Dahi and Firat Demir Index 381
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W. W. Norton & Company Games of Strategy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Harry Gunnison Brown
Book SynopsisHarry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of a important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J. B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight. In some ways Brown represented an orthodoxy in economics that was slipping away as neoclassical economics assumed a particular shape. For example, Brown argued for the separate influences of both land and capital goods on the pricing of goods and services and did not follow the trend in orthodox circles of considering land just another form of capital. Brown supported land value taxation at a time when the leading economists of his day rejected Henry George's ideas and the possibility of Georgist economics. Ryan explores the work of Harry Gunnison Brown, one the most important innovators in American economic history Summarizes Brown's theoretical insights as well as the intellectual contexts in which they were developed Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments to this Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Land as a Factor of Production. 3. Capital and Interest T heories. 4. Monetary Economics. 5. Taxation. 6. Land Value Taxation. 7. Regulation and Rate-Making. 8. International Trade and Finance. 9. Contributions as an Educator. 10. Conclusion. Books, Articles and Letters by Harry Gunnison Brown. Co-Edited or Co-Authored Books and Articles. Secondary Sources. Index.
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Kessinger Publishing The Economics of John Maynard Keynes
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Corporate Communication
Book SynopsisThe chief communication officer at a Fortune 500 multinational corporation today faces the challenges of a rapidly changing global economy, a revolution in communications channels fueled by the Internet, and a substantially transformed understanding of what a 21st-century corporation stands for. This book provides an accessible framework for describing these forces and the specific communication challenges that they have thrown at the global corporation. The text reviews the evolution of society's response to the development of the modern company and the corporate communication practices that grew up in response to it, as well as examining the impact of globalization, Web 2.0 and the networked enterprise on current corporate relationships with key stakeholders such as customers, employees, shareholders, communities and regulators. In examining these forces and how they are interwoven, the authors offer insights and strategies for deploying effective communication as a strategic buTrade Review«Goodman and Hirsch’s book is essential reading for corporate communications executives. Insightful and practical, it will help them become better counselors to their CEOs, better partners with their C-suite colleagues, and better leaders of their own organizations.» (Dick Martin, Executive Vice President, AT&T (retired); Author, ‘Secrets of the Marketing Masters’) «In situating corporate communication issues and practices within the context of globalization, rapid technological change, and the networked organization, Goodman and Hirsch offer readers a compelling and necessary discussion of the forces influencing corporate communication, and they utilize a host of contemporary examples to do so. This book is a must read for researchers and practitioners interested in business, corporate communication, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environment society governance (ESG) on the global stage. Goodman and Hirsch encourage us all to think carefully about what effective corporate communication should look like in the 21st century.» (Stacey L. Connaughton, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University) «In today’s global environment, there is no function within a major corporation more important than what is commonly called corporate communication. This new book, ‘Corporate Communication: Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice’, written by Goodman and Hirsch, supports that conclusion with comprehensive and convincing evidence. Large companies cannot succeed today without successfully managing relationships with their key constituencies in the context of what is desired by those constituencies. Previously, only the CEO him or herself has been in a position to view all of those audiences with a balanced view of what is ethical and correct behavior. The fully developed corporate communication function of today has evolved to work side by side with the CEO and Boards of Directors. The function not only influences what and how a company speaks, but also how it acts. The Goodman/Hirsch book makes that case more strongly than any text written in the past. It should be must reading for not only the professional communicator but for all CEOs and Boards of Directors to see the unique and priceless value the corporate communication function can bring to the corporate table today.» (James E. Murphy, Retired Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Accenture; Chairman & CEO of Murphy & Co.) «Goodman and Hirsch capture not only the theory and organization of corporate communication, but its true heart and soul, even as they show you how to ground this practice in a wholly changed and changing world.» (Raymond C. Jordan, Corporate Vice President Public Affairs & Corporate Communications, Johnson & Johnson)«Goodman and Hirsch’s book is essential reading for corporate communications executives. Insightful and practical, it will help them become better counselors to their CEOs, better partners with their C-suite colleagues, and better leaders of their own organizations.» (Dick Martin, Executive Vice President, AT&T (retired); Author, ‘Secrets of the Marketing Masters’) «In situating corporate communication issues and practices within the context of globalization, rapid technological change, and the networked organization, Goodman and Hirsch offer readers a compelling and necessary discussion of the forces influencing corporate communication, and they utilize a host of contemporary examples to do so. This book is a must read for researchers and practitioners interested in business, corporate communication, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environment society governance (ESG) on the global stage. Goodman and Hirsch encourage us all to think carefully about what effective corporate communication should look like in the 21st century.» (Stacey L. Connaughton, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University) «In today’s global environment, there is no function within a major corporation more important than what is commonly called corporate communication. This new book, ‘Corporate Communication: Strategic Adaptation for Global Practice’, written by Goodman and Hirsch, supports that conclusion with comprehensive and convincing evidence. Large companies cannot succeed today without successfully managing relationships with their key constituencies in the context of what is desired by those constituencies. Previously, only the CEO him or herself has been in a position to view all of those audiences with a balanced view of what is ethical and correct behavior. The fully developed corporate communication function of today has evolved to work side by side with the CEO and Boards of Directors. The function not only influences what and how a company speaks, but also how it acts. The Goodman/Hirsch book makes that case more strongly than any text written in the past. It should be must reading for not only the professional communicator but for all CEOs and Boards of Directors to see the unique and priceless value the corporate communication function can bring to the corporate table today.» (James E. Murphy, Retired Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Accenture; Chairman & CEO of Murphy & Co.) «Goodman and Hirsch capture not only the theory and organization of corporate communication, but its true heart and soul, even as they show you how to ground this practice in a wholly changed and changing world.» (Raymond C. Jordan, Corporate Vice President Public Affairs & Corporate Communications, Johnson & Johnson)
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John Wiley & Sons Improving Effective Coverage in Health French E Les Incitations Financi232res FonctionnentElles
Book SynopsisThis Policy Research Report examines one specific policy approach to improving effective coverage: financial incentives in the form of performance-based financing (PBF) or financial incentives to health workers on the front lines.
£999.99
World Bank Publications Reclaiming the Lost Century of Growth
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Open Road Media Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from
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£31.49
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Can Finance Save the World?: Regaining Power over
Book SynopsisHow to Make Finance a Force for GoodJust as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world''s biggest problems--climate change, poverty, infrastructure rebuilding, and more. As he writes, "When controlled and used intelligently, with benevolence and inventiveness, finance can accomplish great things."
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Grand Central Publishing Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large, the
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PublicAffairs Value(s): Building a Better World for All
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Autonomedia The Violence of Financial Capitalism: Volume 2
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St Augustine's Press Polity and Economy – Further Thoughts Principles
Book SynopsisTo perceive Adam Smith's place in the stream of Enlightenment philosophy is to gain an indispensable insight into our own condition as denizens of the liberal capitalist society. Before Smith was the author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, he was the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The earlier work establishes Smith unmistakably as among those thinkers who aspired to describe the human condition in terms of motivation, of cause and effect, thus in terms of the principles of nature itself, of nature as mechanism, not nature as edifying teleology. Precisely because morality was not to be traced to any homiletic beyond nature or to a volition with nature, the thinkers of the modern order assumed responsibility for locating the ground of true moral virtue within mechanical nature alone. And just as the locating of mankind within a remorseless system of cause and effect could be the reduction of humanity to the status of robotic slavery, it became the self-assigned task of the thinkers in question to demonstrate that the natural order was one not of etiological bondage but of freedom in an elevated sense. The intention of Polity and Economy is to present Adam Smith as author of liberal capitalism, as propounder within an order that converts the natural self-preference of every living thing into an instrument of goodness, prosperity, and freedom - as long as our deployment of natural means does not, in the organization and conduct of society, violate the truths of nature itself. This edition of Polity and Economy revises the original with cross-references from the standard Glasgow editions and adds two further essays not in the original: 'Adam Smith and Political Philosophy' and 'The Invisible Hand: Moral and Political Considerations.'Table of ContentsNote to the Present Edition Preface Introduction 1. The General Foundation of Smith's System 2. Freedom, History, and the Commercial Order 3. The Problem of Smith's Intention 4. Adam Smith and Political Philosophy 5. The Invisible Hand: Moral and Political Considerations Index Notes
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St Augustine's Press Xenophon`s Socratic Discourse – Interpretation Of
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc State Legitimacy and Development in Africa
Book SynopsisIt is typically taken for granted that African economies perform poorly, but there are a small but significant number of success stories on the continent. This study explores what accounts for Africa's average stagnation, and for the wide regional variations in developmental fortunes.
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Select Books Inc One Choice, One World: The Rise of the Well-Being
Book SynopsisIn this provocative and groundbreaking work, fourth-generation family business steward Frederick Tsao outlines an original vision for a new consciousness of life in the quantum era.Integrating the best of Eastern wisdom and Western science with decades of deep experience, Tsao articulates a new definition of well-being as a life journey to systemic coherence. He argues that each of us must make one conscious choice to undertake an inward journey to find inner peace and love. Along this journey are infinite possibilities for inner coherence and harmony to come into alignment with the world around us, caring for each other and the one planet we inhabit.Businesses will be at the very forefront of this transformation. From economics and politics to technological innovation and the way governments are run, every aspect of human culture will be reshaped to prioritize our collective well-being and happiness.As each one of us has a part to play in this paradigm shift, One Choice, One World invites you to join the movement and embrace the collective awakening now. The future is in our hands!Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part ONE: the Global Awakening Chapter One From the Evolutionary History of Humanity to a Change Theory The Emergence of a Common Worldview Integrating Western Science and Eastern Traditions Our Change Theory Experiencing Chaos As We Evolve to a New System Awakening to Humanity's Evolutionary Energy The Signs of Awakening to a New System New Consciousness of Life, Ethics, and Our Responsibilities Reaching the Tipping Point Chapter Two The Particular Example of China What the Rise of China Tells Us About the Relationship Between Well-Being and Governance The Chinese Cultural Paradigm Evolutionary Force in the Course of Chinese History From Primitive Chaos to the Heyday of Ideas: Laying the Foundation for a Worldview The Inheritance of Worldview and Modern Development Democratic Centralism as the Fundamental Principle People-Centered Core Ideas The Guiding Theory of Family, State, and World Five-Year Plans Show the Way The Culture of Harmony and Stability as Prosperity From a Characteristic Chinese Socialist Market Economy to a Community of a Shared Future for Mankind Chapter 3 A Vision of Quantum Leadership The Emergence of Quantum Leadership Quantum Leadership and a Shift in Consciousness Quantum Leadership and the Quantum Paradigm The Ontological Divide An Inner Life Journey How Do We Get There? A Practice of Self-Cultivation Part TWO: The Era of an Economy of Well-being and Happiness Chapter 4 From the Cosmos, the Universe, and Usto a New Theory of Well-Being Revisiting Humanity's Existential Question Moving Toward a Renewed Model of Well-Being Living Well to Achieve Mindful Living A Design for the Economy of Well-Being and Happiness Infrastructure Design and Planning for Living New Relationships with Our Environment and Energy Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship New Technology Powers Media and Social Media Moving Toward a New Economic Paradigm Chapter 5 A Renewed Economic Model of Social Transformation and Integration A New Culture Drives the New Economics Global Trade Integration Creating One Currency Based on Direct Trade Integration Needs Technology The New Role of Business Shaping a Different Economic Paradigm A Vision of the Future Well-Being and Happiness Economy Part THREE: Our future is Now Chapter 6 Discovering One Choice, One World Awakening Sharing My Story My Journey A Time of Discoveries Creating Octave My Calling Endnotes addendum The Chinese Historical Path Timeline China's Path from the First Dynasty in Chinese History, Established in 2070 BCE, to the Present Government of the People's Republic of China Index About the Author
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Select Books Inc MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
Book SynopsisFrom the Foreword by Don Edward Beck, PhD: Books about subjects like economics are rarely written from the perspective of human or cultural evolution. Seldom, if ever, does a reader come across a narrative with pioneering methods that reframe a specialized discipline through a wide-cultural whole systems approach. This is precisely what Said E. Dawlabani does in this revolutionary book, Memenomics: The Next-Generation Economic System. This is a book that reframes the issues of competing economic and political ideologies and places them into an evolutionary new paradigm. This is a book about change done right. It is no secret that today we are dealing with a great political divide that threatens many of our democratic institutions. Right and left ideologies have becomes polarized camps that seem to be worlds apart.Trade Review"I was asked to share my thoughts on some of the most important books on the future of capitalism. Here is number 1: Memenomics: The Next-Generation Economic System--It is a rich and illuminating re-thinking of evolutionary economics by an outstanding American-Lebanese thinker. Said E. Dawlabani is a meta-economist and a key practitioner of the emerging science of value systems. This book is a must-read for those looking to understand systemic change." -- Jean Houston, Ph.D."In MEMEnomics, cultural creative Said E. Dawlabani provides a resource to help us safely navigate this dark passage to a healthier future. Dawlabani, a macroeconomics expert, exploits the frontier science of biomimicry to offer a pioneering value-system's approach to modeling the conscious evolution of business." -- Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, Cell biologist and best-selling author of The Biology of Belief"Said Elias Dawlabani has opened the door to this crucial topic with a groundbreaking conversation about the stages of development of people and societies, and the emerging economic systems needed to fit the life conditions we face. Read this book--and join the conversation about healthy change." -- Cindy Wigglesworth, Author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence; President, Deep Change, Inc.
£21.56
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of
Book Synopsis"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada"Thought-provoking and creative" — Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics"Meme Wars is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom. "— Calgary HeraldFrom the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. Meme Wars aims to accelerate the shift into this new paradigm that takes into account psychonomics, bionomics, and other aspects of our physical and mental environment that are often left out in discussions of economics. Like Adbusters, the book will be image heavy and full-color throughout. Lasn calls it "a textbook for the future" that provides the building blocks, in texts and visuals, for a new way of looking at and changing our world. Through an examination of alternative economies, Lasn hopes to spur students to become "barefoot economists" and to see that a humanization of economics is possible. Meme Wars will include contributions from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Samuelson, George Akerlof, Lourdes Benería, Julie Matthaei, Manfred Max-Neef, David Orrell, Paul Gilding, Mathis Wackernagel and the father of ecological economics Herman Daly, among others.Based on ideas that were presented in a special issue of Adbusters entitled "Thought Control in Economics: Beyond the Growth Paradigm / An Activist Toolkit," Meme Wars will help move forward the Occupy Wall Street movement.
£26.96
Berrett-Koehler Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn
Book SynopsisMany of the worldâs economic ills - short-termism, compulsory growth pressure, cyclical recessions, unrelenting concentration of wealth, and erosion of social capital can be traced to our competitive money system, in which there is built-in economic scarcity and never enough money for people to pay off their debts. We need an economic system that is both cooperative and competitive, with each balancing and complimenting the other. Lietaer and Dunne tell how such a balanced system can be created and, in fact, how it is already being built in many places around the world. Individual citizens, entrepreneurs, businesses, communities, and governments are creating new cooperative money systems that link unused resources with unmet needs. Over the past 30 years there has been a tremendous growth of cooperative currencies from fewer than 100 in 1980 to over 4,000 today. But we need many more of them spread more consistently all over the globe. We also need more large-scale cooperative currencies. The emergent cooperative currency movement needs to grow up. Dodging the dogma of both left or right Rethinking Money provides the roadmap for this to happen.
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Berrett-Koehler Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes
Book Synopsis"The Commons" is a generic term that denotes everything we share. The commons includes our entire life support system, both natural and social. The air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness and flowing water â all are parts of the commons. So too are language and knowledge, sidewalks and public squares, the stories of childhood, the processes of democracy. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature, others the product of human creativity and endeavor. Some are new, such as the Internet, others are as ancient as soil and calligraphy. But they all âœbelongâ to all of us, if that is the word. No one has exclusive rights. We inherit them jointly and hold them in trust for those who come after us.This short but comprehensive work examines the history and tragic loss of the commons and discusses how we can bring them back at a time when privatization and ownership are economic mantras. By examining institutions, communities, and educational systems as well as the ways in which communities and even nations are governed, the authors make a plea for a more sustainable, healthier, and socially beneficial future for all by establishing and thriving in the commons.
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Michigan State University Press Economy and the Future: A Crisis of Faith
Book SynopsisA monster stalks the earth — a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by a light that comes from the future: the Keynesian crisis of expectations. It is this same light that causes the world’s leaders to tremble before the beast. They tremble, Jean-Pierre Dupuy says, because they have lost faith in the future.What Dupuy calls Economy has degenerated today into a mad spectacle of unrestrained consumption and speculation. But in its positive form—a truly political economy in which politics, not economics, is predominant—Economy creates not only a sense of trust and confidence but also a belief in the open-endedness of the future without which capitalism cannot function.In this devastating and counterintuitive indictment of the hegemonic pretensions of neoclassical economic theory, Dupuy argues that the immutable and eternal decision of God has been replaced with the unpredictable and capricious judgment of the crowd. The future of mankind will therefore depend on whether it can see through the blindness of orthodox economic thinking.
£16.10
Reaktion Books Adam Smith Critical Lives
Book SynopsisA new, critical biography of Scottish thinker Adam Smith, acknowledged as the father of capitalism and developer of the concept of the 'invisible hand'.
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Verso Books The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society
Book SynopsisExploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration of "pure" capitalism. To misinterpret neoliberalism is to fail to understand what is new about it: far from viewing the market as a natural given that limits state action, neoliberalism seeks to construct the market and make the firm a model for governments. Only once this is grasped will its opponents be able to meet the unprecedented political and intellectual challenge it poses.Trade ReviewThe New Way of the World is the best modern realization of Foucault's pioneering approach to the history of neoliberalism. It wonderfully explores the European roots and branches of the neoliberal thought collective over the twentieth century, and warns that unthinking misrepresentations of its political project as espousing 'laissez-faire' has had the effect of allowing the Left to submit to its siren song. -- Philip MirowskiTo understand these debates [on neoliberalism], the book by Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot on the 'neoliberal society' offers us analytical keys. This monument of scholarship draws on the history of ideas, philosophy and sociology. * Le Monde *Extremely scholarly, this book is an insistent invitation to push theoretical and social critique of the present order beyond the standard analyses. * Le Monde diplomatique *
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Verso Books The City: London and the Global Power of Finance
Book SynopsisThe City, as London's financial centre is known, is the world's biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial part of the mechanism of power in the world economy. Based on the author's twenty years' experience of City dealing rooms, The City is an in-depth look at world markets and revenues that exposes how this mechanism works. All big international companies-not just the banks-utilize this system, and The City shows how the operations of the City of London are critical both for British capitalism and for world finance. Tony Norfield details, with shocking and insightful research, the role of the US dollar in global trading, the network of British-linked tax havens, the flows of finance around the world and the system of power built upon financial securities. Why do just fifty companies now have control of a large share of world economic production? The City explains how this situation came about, examining the history of the world economy from the post-war period to the present day.Trade ReviewNorfield writes from a position of experience: he has worked in the belly of the beast, and the book is the better for it...In The City, he has done the research and pulled together the financial statistics that explain how the bloodsucking works. * Financial Times *With heaps of empirical research and a clear style of argumentation, he demonstrates that the City isn't a "satellite of Wall Street" as many think, but its own beast, using Britain's imperialist privilege to extract value from the world economy. Much of the book is directed against bad arguments made by the liberal-left - the distinction between "productive" capitalism and"casino" banking; the populist vitriol against "the banks"- which Norfield believes aren't just analytically false but let capitalism off the hook. * Vice *This book does the seemingly impossible: rendering finance's mysteries transparent to the average reader, and at the same time delivering a penetrating analysis of the global economic system that will enlighten even experts. Tony Norfield has written a truly exciting and important book. -- Paul Mattick, author of Business as UsualTheCity is a valuable addition to the critical analysis of the financialisation of our world. And Tony Norfield is an experienced and radical guide to London's role in this process. This book should be required reading for both bankers and activists alike. -- Joris Luyendjik, author of Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the BankersA timely and insightful book...It is an excellent read foranyone seriously wanting to consider the financial system * Scottish Business Insider *How many Marxists are at work in the dealing rooms of the City? Presumably they keep their heads well down. Tony Norfield is-or was-one. Twenty years a trader at the centre of the financial web, he has married the insights into the workings of the system he gained to a thorough Marxist understanding of political economy. The result is this fascinating book. * Morning Star *Tony Norfield has had20 years experience in City of London financial dealing rooms, for ten years asan executive director and global head of FX strategy in a major European bank.He went on to complete a PhD in economics at SOAS, London. Above all, he is aMarxist. It's a perfect recipe for an excellent book on modern Britishimperialism and the features of global finance in the 21st century. -- Michael Roberts, author of The Long DepressionNorfield's unusual clarity as both an analyst and expositor is reflected in his ability to lay out for his readers an easy-to-grasp introduction to how finance works today in the process of offering a detailed historically-rooted account of the multiple hierarchies and privileged relationships through which global economic domination is constructed and reproduced. The City is a tour de force, which will soon be recognized as a formidable challenge to conventional wisdom and an essential contribution in its own right. -- Robert Brenner, author of The Economics of Global Turbulence
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Verso Books Automation and the Future of Work
Book SynopsisSilicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed 'rise of the robots' really explain the jobs crisis that awaits us on the other side of the coronavirus? In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can't deliver it? In response to calls for a universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a counter-proposal.Trade ReviewAaron Benanav demolishes the popular myths around automation -- Ben Tarnoff, editor of Logic magazineA powerful and persuasive explanation of why capitalism can't create jobs or generate incomes for a majority of humanity. -- Mike Davis, author of Set the Night on FireAn excellent, insightful account of the contours of our present labor crisis. Benanav articulately makes the case for a post-scarcity future. -- Robert Skidelsky, biographer of John Maynard KeynesA highly quantitative analysis of the nature of contemporary unemployment flowers into something quite different and unexpected: a qualitative argument for the invention of new collective capacities in a world where work is no longer central to social life. -- Kristin Ross, author of Communal LuxuryA rare book that manages to soberly assess the contemporary landscape while keeping a clear eye on our utopian horizons. This is an important intervention into current discussions around technology and work - and a must-read for anyone who believes capitalist decay is not the only future. * Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism *Benanav dissects and disproves the idea that automation is eradicating work ... We don't need to wait for robots to do all the work; we can collectively decide what we need, then plan the economy to achieve it. -- Paris Marx * Passage *Thought-provoking ... packs quite a punch of macroeconomics and practical philosophy. -- International Policy DigestHe can write movingly and do so on a global scale -- Patrick McGinty * Pittsburgh Post Gazette *The two parts of Benanav's book-analytic and utopian-correspond to the two halves of the Marxian project: to both interpret the world, and change it -- Lola Seaton * New Statesman *Compelling reading. A rising star among the intelligentsia of the left * Dublin Review of Books *A powerful critique ... [Benanav] carefully chart[s] how our economic system is unable to deliver further social progress and ... set[s] out a believable vision of a non-capitalist future. -- Alexis Moraitis * ROAR *Crucial ... Automation and the Future of Work is impressively multifaceted for such a short text ... an excellent book. -- Mack Penner * Labour / Le Travail *Automation and the Future of Work gathers significant cold water to pour on automation's fever dreams. -- Amelia Horgan * Radical Philosophy *Important ... an eye-opening perspective for a convincing and encouraging political project -- Görkem Giray * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *
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Paths International Ltd A Study of Income Distribution in China
Book SynopsisAs the country with the fastest economic growth in the world, China is faced with extremely complex income distribution. To study and understand income distribution, it is not only necessary to start with the general law of the development of market economy, but with China's unique system and mechanism. This book is the result of the major project of the National Social Science Fund. This project on China's income distribution, one of the four major issues when central government leaders came to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in spring festival of 2011, becomes the task of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics. According to the plan, the project was aided by experts from other institutes of the Academy of Social Sciences and well-known experts from other institutions outside the Academy of Social Sciences.
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ISI Books Human Goods, Economic Evils: A Moral Approach to
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Les Belles Lettres La Contre-Revolution Comptable. Ces Chiffres Qui
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Les Belles Lettres Le Capital. I- l'Invention Du Capitalisme
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Varia
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Varia
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin L'Agent Economique Et Ses Representations
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin La Philosophie Economique Au Japon / Economic
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Etudier La Pensee Economique Par Le Prisme de
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gesammelte Schriften in deutscher Sprache: Abt. B
Book SynopsisIn diesem Band, dessen englische Originalausgabe "The Fatal Conceit - The Errors of Socialism" 1988, kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch des sowjetischen Imperiums erschien, präsentiert Friedrich August von Hayek die Hauptargumente für eine freiheitliche, marktwirtschaftliche Ordnung und legt sein Manifest über die 'Irrtümer des Sozialismus' vor. Hayek stellt dar, daß der Sozialismus seit seinen Anfängen auf irrigen faktischen und theoretischen Annahmen beruht. Die wiederholten Mißerfolge in vielen verschiedenen Anwendungen der sozialistischen Ideen betrachtet Hayek als direktes Ergebnis dieser Irrtümer. Als "verhängnisvolle Anmaßung" bezeichnet er die Vorstellung, daß der Mensch "die Welt um sich nach seinen Wünschen formen kann".Im Alter von fast 80 Jahren und nach einer lebenslangen Auseinandersetzung mit sozialistischen Vorstellungen schrieb Hayek dieses Buch als Manifest für eine öffentliche Debatte über die Frage: 'War der Sozialismus ein Fehler?' Das Ergebnis ist wahrscheinlich das zugänglichste und gleichzeitig das umstrittenste seiner Werke. Die Hauptaufgabe seines Buches, so Hayek, sei es zu zeigen, daß der Sozialismus als eine der einflußreichsten politischen Bewegungen unserer Zeit von nachweislich falschen Voraussetzungen ausgeht und - entgegen den guten Absichten und trotz der herausragenden Intelligenz mancher seiner Vertreter - den Lebensstandard und sogar das Leben eines Großteils der Menschheit gefährdet hat und gefährdet.Zwar umstritten, aber hervorragend zu lesen, ist "Die verhängnisvolle Anmaßung" ein Werk von beträchtlicher Gelehrsamkeit und Ausdruckskraft, das einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Debatte über die jeweiligen Verdienste der sozialistischen und kapitalistischen Weltsicht leistet.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Das Zeitalter von Herbert Giersch:
Book SynopsisAm 11. Mai 2011 wäre Herbert Giersch 90 Jahre alt geworden. Er lehrte von 1955 bis 1969 an der Universität des Saarlandes und von 1969 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1989 als Präsident des Instituts für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel. Zudem war Giersch Gründungsmitglied des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Der vorliegende Band enthält die Beiträge einer Tagung, die zu seinen Ehren in Freiburg veranstaltet wurde. Die Autoren beleuchten Gierschs wissenschaftliches Werk aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, seine Vorstellung von wirtschaftspolitischer Beratung, seine Analysen zu Konjunkturpolitik und Globalsteuerung, zur Angebotspolitik, zu Wachstum und weltwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, zu Monetarismus und Wechselkursen, zum Strukturwandel, zur Regionalökonomik und zur Ordnungspolitik. Die Beiträge fassen nicht nur Gierschs Einsichten zu diesen Themen zusammen, sondern zeigen auch ihre Relevanz für die heutige Wirtschaftspolitik im Zeichen der Finanz- und Schuldenkrise auf. Zu den Autoren gehören eine Reihe von namhaften Ökonomen, darunter Peter Bernholz, Jagdish Bhagwati, Johannes Bröcker, Juergen B. Donges, Gerhard Fels, Bertram Schefold, Gerhard Schwödiauer, Hans-Werner Sinn, Manfred Streit, Roland Vaubel und Carl-Christian von Weizsäcker.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Daseinsvorsorge und Universaldienst: Eine
Book SynopsisLange Zeit wurden die Wirtschaftssektoren der Daseinsvorsorge als ordnungspolitische Ausnahmebereiche angesehen, die vom wirtschaftlichen Wettbewerb ausgenommen und der Obhut staatlicher Verwaltungstätigkeit unterstellt sein sollten. Bernhard Aubin legt eine grundlegende Untersuchung des oft dargestellten Konfliktes zwischen Wettbewerb und Gemeinwohl in der Daseinsvorsorge vor. Wie weit kann und soll der Wettbewerb ein ordnendes Prinzip in diesen Wirtschaftsbereichen sein? Bestehen legitime gemeinsame Anliegen der Bürger, die einer vollumfänglichen Liberalisierung dieser Sektoren im Wege stehen? Neben der Untersuchung gesellschaftspolitischer und wettbewerbsökonomischer Argumente legt der Autor einen besonderen Schwerpunkt auf die Analyse des in der Daseinsvorsorge prominenten Ziels einer flächendeckend-universellen Versorgung zu erschwinglichen Preisen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic
Book SynopsisCurrently, the terms regulation and deregulation are on everyone's lips. However, historical attempts to solve the problem of natural monopolies ranged between two extremes. On the one hand there was the government regulation of private companies in the U.S., and on the other hand there was government provision or nationalization of companies in Germany and most of continental Europe. At the interface between legal and economic history, this volume, the result of a German-American conference, focuses on the regulation of natural monopolies in network industries such as railways, energy or telecommunications. It analyzes constitutional and legal frameworks and investigates the development of markets and the political influence exerted by market participants. All historical moments lead to broader questions about regulation in its cultural-historical context, including the general principles underlying public regulatory policy in law, economics and society - as well as existing path dependences. Hence, the volume provides a transnational and intercultural dialogue about the different characteristics and cultural interpretations of markets and market economies as well as their roles in society.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Homo oeconomicus: Das ökonomische Modell
Book SynopsisGebhard Kirchgässner stellt in seiner Arbeit das Modell individuellen rationalen Verhaltens dar, wie es der modernen ökonomischen Theorie zugrunde liegt und berücksichtigt seine wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundlagen. Dabei zeigt er, wie mit Hilfe dieses Modells 'kollektives Verhalten' erklärt werden kann, und wie sich gesellschaftliche Gegebenheiten aus nicht beabsichtigten Nebenfolgen individuell rationalen Verhaltens ergeben.In der vierten Auflage wurde auch auf Aspekte eingegangen, die sich in Zusammenhang mit der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise ergeben haben."Das Werk des seit 1992 an der Universität St. Gallen lehrenden Gebhard Kirchgässner ist virtuos, breit angelegt, gut geschrieben und trotzdem tiefschürfend. Im deutschsprachigen Raum dürfte es das einzige Buch sein, welches sich derart umfassend mit der ökonomischen Aktionstheorie auseinandersetzt."Martin Hostettler in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 160 (2009), S. 397
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gesammelte Schriften in deutscher Sprache: Abt. A
Book SynopsisDer 1974 mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnete Ökonom und Sozialphilosoph Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) gilt weithin als einer der bedeutendsten Denker des Liberalismus im 20. Jahrhundert. Von Beiträgen zur ökonomischen Theorie ausgehend wandte er sich später den Fragen nach der "Verfassung der Freiheit" und der evolutorischen Entstehung von Institutionen als Grundlage für eine freiheitliche Ordnung zu. Der vorliegende Band stellt diejenigen Arbeiten Hayeks in den Vordergrund, die seine liberalen Positionen zur Ordnung des Geldwesens und zur Frage der Vermeidbarkeit von Konjunkturen und Krisen begründen.Dieser Band enthält sowohl die zwei grundlegenden frühen Monographien Hayeks, Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie (1929) und Preise und Produktion (1931), als auch spätere weiterführende Beiträge, in denen er sich mit Kritik auseinandersetzt und seine Analyse durch den sog. "Ricardo-Effekt" erweitert. Allen diesen Arbeiten gemeinsam ist die Identifikation von Inflation als der Ursache einer künstlichen Wirtschaftsbelebung, die unvermeidlich in die Krise führen muss, und daraus abgeleitet die weitgehende Ablehnung expansiver geld- und finanzpolitischer Maßnahmen zur Krisenbekämpfung. Von allem Anfang an sieht sich Hayek demgemäß als prononcierten Gegner des theoretischen Ansatzes einer "Makroökonomik" und insbesondere des Keynesianismus als wirtschaftspolitischem Programm.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Was vom Wucher übrig bleibt: Zinsverbote im
Book SynopsisDas Persönlichkeitsideal hat sich durch die Massenkommunikation bereits im 20. Jahrhundert verändert. In der Rechtsordnung wurden entsprechende Konzepte des Persönlichkeitsschutzes entwickelt. Durch das Word Wide Web sind neue, netzbezogene Phänomene und Bedrohungen entstanden. Die im Zeitalter der (analogen) Massenmedien gebildeten Paradigmen des Persönlichkeitsschutzes sind daher auf ihre Netztauglichkeit zu überprüfen.
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