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An End to Poverty?
A Historical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens...
by David Orrell, Roman Chlupatý
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The sharing economy's unique customer-to-company exchange is possible because of the way in which money has evolved. These transactions have not always been as fluid as they are today, and they are likely to become even more fluid. It is therefore critical that we learn to appreciate money's elastic...
American Capitalism
New Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world...
Sovereignty
The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm wonders whether recent political changes have...
by J. Charles Schencking
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he...
by Padma Desai
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this book, Padma Desai makes the complexities of economic policy and financial reform accessible to a wide audience. Merging a compelling narrative with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary policy,...
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene
An Emerging Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences....
The Wealth of Nature
How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book,...
Endangered Economies
How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we save our environment and grow our economy?" This issue has become only more urgent in recent years with the threat of climate change, the accelerating...
The Book of Lord Shang
Apologetics of State Power in Early China
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Compiled in China in the fourth–third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society and turn every man into a diligent tiller and valiant soldier. Creating a “rich state and a strong army” will be the first step toward unification of “All-under-Heaven.”...
The Nature of Value
How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Using evolution as the template to understand growth, The Nature of Value takes a first-principles approach to explore the parallels between economic and ecological systems. Not only does Gogerty show how value is born out of tiny sparks of adaptive innovation, but he also explores the full scope...
Famine in North Korea
Markets, Aid, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including...
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and...
Working for Respect
Community and Conflict at Walmart
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...