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  • How Labor Powers the Global Economy

    A Labor Theory of Capitalism

    by Emmanuel D. Farjoun, Moshé Machover, David Zachariah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and develops a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. By applying the framework to real-world data, the authors offer new insights into the dynamics of growth, wages, and accumulation in capitalist development around the globe.The book ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Laws of Chaos

    A Probabilistic Approach to Political Economy

    Edited by Emmanuel Farjoun, Moshe Machover ...
    Classic work of political economicsIn this classic work of political economy, Emmanuel Farjoun and Moshé Machover rebuild two fundamental concepts of the discipline: price and profit. They redefine the basic notions of political economy, relying on probabilistic–statistical methods of the kind used in the modern foundations of other sciences. This amounts to a rigorous new foundation of the labour ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    “A hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a whole.” —Martin Sandbu, Financial TimesIn the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Debunking Economics

    The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

    by Professor Steve Keen ...
    Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional 'neoclassical' economic theory basked in the limelight. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Capitalism

    Competition, Conflict, Crises

    by Anwar Shaikh ...
    Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Economyths

    How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought

    by David Orrell ...
    From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets - in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven per cent gain. But by the end of the year, the Standard and Poor's 500 index - a key ... Read more

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  • Beyond Growth

    The Economics of Sustainable Development

    by Herman E. Daly ...
    "Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics."--Utne Reader"Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly elegantly topples many shibboleths in Beyond Growth. Daly challenges the conventional notion that growth is always good, and he ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • American Gridlock

    Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - Commonsense 101 Solutions to the Economic Crises

    by H. Woody Brock ...
    A sensible solution to getting our economy back on trackPessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps. Right-and Left-wing ideologues talk past each other, with neither side admitting the other has any good ideas. In American Gridlock, leading economist and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Disequilibrium

    A World Out Of Kilter

    by Thierry Malleret ...
    "Disequilibrium" is an essay at the intersection of economics, geopolitics, and political and environmental science: it connects the dots between various academic disciplines and does a great job at simplifying the increasing complexity of today's world. It contends that in the foreseeable future, our world will be lurching from one global crisis to the next as it becomes much more susceptible to ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Future of Money: How Our Debt Money System is Wrecking the World And How You Can Change It

    by Ssemakula Peter Luyima ...
    Ssemakula Peter Luyima provides a new concept for World Economy in the 21st century, by producing a revised concept of MuRatopian Economy; 30 years after Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi presented a synthesized analysis of the Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian with his own public money economic model. It is this author’s intention not only to provide an integrative concept for reconstruction of the ... Read more

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  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    by Avinash K. Dixit ...
    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Read more

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  • Economic Geography and Public Policy

    by Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid, Philippe Martin, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Frederic Robert-Nicoud ...
    Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD