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Greed, Lust and Gender
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 25.99When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour? Until the unprecedented events of the recent global financial crisis economists often seemed unconcerned with this question, even suggesting that "greed is good." A closer look, however, suggests that greed and lust are generally considered good... more...
Advances in Behavioral Economics
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 67.50Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical--even antagonistic--toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists,... more...
Economics for Humans
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 16.00At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned and perceptive work, Julie A. Nelson asks a compelling question: If our economic world is something... more...
Mathematical Optimization and Economic Analysis
Springer 2010; US$ 99.00Through a systematic approach, this book demonstrates the usefulness of these mathematical tools in quantitative and qualitative economic analysis. more...
Predictably Rational?
Springer 2009; US$ 47.99Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM's Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi,"... more...
Mismeasuring Our Lives
New Press, The 2010; US$ 15.95In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize?winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?the most widely used... more...
Secrets of the Moneylab
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95Taking behavioral economics from the cocktail party to the boardroom, with dramatic results Books like Predictably Irrational and Nudge have brought behavioral economics into the mainstream. But while we all marvel at how different-and weird-real people behave compared to the "rational actors" of traditional economics, in the end we go back... more...
Individuals and Identity in Economics
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 28.00This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics. more...
Milton Friedman on Economics
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.00On his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as “the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era” by the New York Times and “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century” by the Economist . Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly... more...
Language, Communication and the Economy
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 180.00This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what role discourse studies can play in economic research.... more...









