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How Markets Work
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Offers an introduction to elementary economics. This book covers topics such as: the theory of markets, labor markets, market processes when influenced by the availability of information, and social, ethical and political considerations. It also discusses commodity, credit and asset markets, contracts, and dynamics of labor markets. more...
The Invisible Hand of Peace
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00The Invisible Hand of Peace shows that the domestic institutions associated with capitalism have promoted peace between states over the past two centuries. more...
Economics Without Illusions
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.99"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946) Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as friends of the right. There is something to this, since... more...
Why Capitalism Survives Crises
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 134.95The book focuses attention on why capitalism survives crises by developing the argument that it has moved on from its 19th century embodiment to include a class of shock absorbers. This class absorbs the excess of produced commodities while buffering capitalism against the declines of values during crises of the financial system. Reformism, rather... more...
Karl Marx's Das Kapital
Infinite Ideas 2009; US$ 8.95Karl Marx?s Das Kapital a critical analysis of capitalism and its practical economic application and also a critique of other related theories. Today it is considered one of the most famous books ever written. Here, Marx?s text is interpreted for the modern day world of business and economics. Steve Shipside?s interpretation is not a substitute for... more...
Savage Economics
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically... more...
It's Not as Bad as You Think
Wiley 2009; US$ 24.95An upbeat antidote to the gloom and doom forecasts of the financial future Just about everyone is worried about the economy and markets. And the fear is that they will stay down for a long time. But a few brave voices say that the gloom and doom forecasts are just too pessimistic. Reality is that entrepreneurs don't give up. History is pretty clear,... more...
The Trouble with Markets
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95"Compelling prescriptions from an economist unusually able to speak with authority because unlike most of his peers, Bootle spotted that the boom was unsustainable."Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor and author of Who Runs Britain? ?This book will stand out in the explosion of financial crisis literature. Roger Bootle is one of the top, practical economists... more...
The Concept of Capitalism
Springer 2009; US$ 11.99A single system of economic governance ? capitalism ? prevails in the world today, both in theory and in practice. Yet there is neither a standard definition of capitalism nor a theory of how it works. Moreover, the most common conception of capitalism is that of a one-level system governed by markets, i.e., supply and demand, where many socioeconomic... more...
Critical Education Against Global Capitalism
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 185.00In today's vernacular, Marx outed capitalism well over a century ago, but his explanation has been both ignored and misinterpreted by not only his detractors but also by many socialists and even a considerable number of Marxists as well. Today we are experiencing the full impact and suffering the repercussions of capitalism's inherent need... more...









