The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery
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Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in The...
The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change
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Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many...
We are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money
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We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D....
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Robert J. Shiller and George A. Akerlof
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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with...
Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings
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The nature of the contemporary global political economy and the significance of the current crisis...
An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
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In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did...
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt
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The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in...
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
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There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the...
Just Property: Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History
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Property remains the bedrock of the societies we all inhabit. It underpins our core institutions -...
Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
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In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and...