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  • Money

    Series series What is Political Economy?
    Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet economists cannot even agree on what it is.In this pithy, accessible book, Geoffrey Ingham cuts through this tangled web of debate to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Money

    In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Capitalism

    With a New Postscript on the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

    Series series Key Concepts
    Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisisThis book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes. Each placed emphasis on different institutional elements of capitalism - Smith on the market's ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Economics: The Key Concepts

    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

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  • Discipline in the Global Economy?

    International Finance and the End of Liberalism

    Series series New Political Economy
    In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to corporate governance. Vestergaard argues that although these standards are presented as ‘international’ ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Puzzle of Modern Economics

    Science or Ideology?

    Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and controversy on this question. Case studies of the creation of new markets, the Russian transition to capitalism, globalization, and money and finance establish that economics has been very successful where ... Read more

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  • Money and Finance After the Crisis

    Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Who Runs the Economy?

    The Role of Power in Economics

    Edited by Robert Skidelsky, Nan Craig ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of what went wrong, very little has substantially changed. Perhaps the answer has something to do with ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy
    Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theo ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Tax Expenditure Management

    A Critical Assessment

    Series series Cambridge Tax Law Series
    A tax expenditure is a 'tax break' allowed to a taxpayer or group of taxpayers, for example, by way of concession, deduction, deferral or exemption. The tax expenditure concept, as it was first identified, was designed to demonstrate the similarity between direct government spending on the one hand and spending through the tax system on the other. The identification of benefits provided through ... Read more

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  • Keynes

    The Return of the Master

    In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty years ago?There are three main ideas of Keynes's worth thinking about now. The first is that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD