Lexington Books: 3858 books
Compass of Society
Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Compass of Society rethinks the French route to a conception of 'commercial society' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry C. Clark finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being a narrow and abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address...
Greening Auto Jobs
A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution details current and problematic understandings of what constitutes a "green job." Adopting an approach grounded in critical political economy, this book presents a framework to scrutinize the green job solution and the theoretical...
Capitalism and Commerce
Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching, Younkins's work offers the student of political economy and the educated layperson a clear, systematic...
by Stuart K. Hayashi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Life in the Market Ecosystem, the second book inthe Nature of Liberty trilogy, confronts evolutionary psychology head on. It describes the evolutionary psychologists’ theory of gene-culture co-evolution, which states that although customs and culture are not predetermined by anyone’s genetic makeup,...
The Soul of Civil Society
Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look...
The Making of the Economy
A Phenomenology of Economic Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
How did modern man come to believe in the object of the economy? What hopes made us accept scientific authority about this illusive thing? What kinds of persons were attracted by objective knowledge in economic discourse? And how does this knowledge guide our economic life? The Making of the Economy...
Global Marshall Plan
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Computer simulations of a model of a massive, world-wide foreign aid program—a Global Marshall Plan— suggest that world poverty might be virtually eliminated within 50 years without reducing living standards in the rich nations. These results suggest the advisability of initiating a real-world...
The Great Catalyst
European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. However, the EU project has also made visible that...
Freedom, Opportunity, and Security
Economic Policy and the Political System
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Freedom, Opportunity, and Security is a book on government economic policy which will have some appeal to both sides of the political divide. The book starts from basic principles to develop the case for a free economy, and then presents the case for policies to provide opportunity and security. However,...
Romanians in Western Europe
Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The...
Classify and Label
The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups is a philosophical treatment of classification in the social sciences and everyday life, focusing on moral, social, and political implications. The use of labels is essential to how people navigate and understand the world. Classifications...
Corruption in Africa
Causes Consequences, and Cleanups
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Corruption in Africa makes a significant contribution to the study of the impacts and eradication of corruption in African societies. John Mukum Mbaku offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes of public malfeasance in African countries and provides a number of practical and effective policy options...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership
An Ethnographic Case Study of Samoa's Talavou Clan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership focuses on Native and Indigenous leadership as an expression of a lived experience––as seen, felt, and heard––from the perspectives provided by Native Pacific Islanders, Polynesians, and, more specifically, Samoans from the Talavou clan. Central to...