Economics category: 26433 books
How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater...
The Myth of the Rational Market
A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review
“Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis...
The Value of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,"...
Trekonomics
The Economics of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
FAMED ECONOMISTS PAUL KRUGMAN and BRAD DELONG expected blurbs. 2) PREMIER BOOK IN PIPERTEXT IMPRINT: Trekonomics is championed and endorsed by prominent financial journalist Felix Salmon as the premier book in his imprint/collection. Twitter reach: @felixsalmon (156K followers). 3) TREKONOMICS TO BE...
by Robert H. Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will...
by Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME ONE - ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
2. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME TWO - ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
3. DE TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA VOLUME ONE – JOHN...
Money Mischief
Episodes in Monetary History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1994
The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets.
In this “lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history” (Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected...
by Amory Lovins, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is fortunate for us all that Amory Lovins applies his brilliant ideas to caring for the environment. Here he argues that those industries...
by Alanna Hartzok, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is only in recent human history that land has been enclosed and the rights of use given to a few people, as opposed to a whole community....
by Thomas Berry, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1991
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
We presently face a radical transition in Earth's history. "[W]e have already terminated the Cenozoic period of the geo-biological systems...
Summary of Misbehaving
by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field.
The traditional...
Resource Economics
An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Resource Economics engages students and practitioners in natural resource and environmental issues from both local and global standpoints. The fourth edition of this approachable but rigorous text provides a new focus on risk and uncertainty as well as new applications that address the effect of new...
The Invisible Hook
The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining,...
by John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volume
Today, John Maynard Keynes is best remembered for his pioneering development of macroeconomics, and for his advocacy of active fiscal and monetary government policy. This uniquely comprehensive...