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  • Two Paths to Prosperity

    Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

    by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini ...
    How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Political Economics

    Explaining Economic Policy

    by Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini ...
    Series series Zeuthen Lectures
    What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

    Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...
    This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Development Economics

    by Debraj Ray ...
    A landmark textbook on development economicsThe study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the recent huge strides made in the subject. Development Economics does precisely that in a clear, rigorous, and elegant fashion.Debraj Ray, one of the most accomplished ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The Origin of Capitalism

    A Longer View

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...
    **An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible ... Read more

    $20.79 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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  • The Rise and Fall of the EAST

    How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

    by Yasheng Huang, Ph.D. ...
    The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance“Riveting.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street JournalA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • How the World Became Rich

    The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

    by Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin ...
    Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Escape from Rome

    The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Macroeconomic Paradigms and Economic Policy

    From the Great Depression to the Great Recession

    by Nicola Acocella, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Andrew Hughes Hallett ...
    The recent financial crisis has demonstrated the dangers of ignoring the factors that led to previous crises, and the effectiveness of the policies designed to deal with them. Over time, these macroeconomic policies have evolved, oscillating between state intervention and a free-market approach. Following a story that runs from the pre-Great Depression era up until the Financial Crisis of 2007–11, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Pre-Industrial Societies

    Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

    by Patricia Crone ...
    Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and seventeenth-century France. In a lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies, the author examines such key elements as economic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD