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“jim stanford”

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  • Economics for Everyone

    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

    by Jim Stanford ...
    Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't).Through clear bite-sized chapters interspersed with illuminating illustrations, this is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported on in in media. Key concepts such as finance, competition ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power, Employment and Accumulation

    Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

    by Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, Brant Houston ...
    This book provides an interesting and refreshing collection of economic research conducted in the broadly heterodox tradition. A variety of topical issues are addressed, including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability. What unites these diverse essays is their common perspective that social institutions and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

    by Sebastian Bödeker, Jim Stanford, Christoph Sorg, Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Ingo Schmidt, James Watson, Moritz Neujeffski, Joy Schnittker, John Shields, Meghan Joy, Chandrima Roy, Philip James, Ian Cunningham, Donna Baines, Steffen Lehndorff, Sebastian Botzem, Heather Whiteside ...
    This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis.Case studies drawn from Canada, Australia and the European Union provide extensive comparative analysis of fiscal consolidation and the varied political responses against austerity. Contributions examine such themes as privatization, class mobilization and resistance, the crisis of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Gifts of Imperfection

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  • Debunking Economics

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    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

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  • Creating a Learning Society

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    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald ...
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    It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they ... Read more

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  • Economics After the Crisis

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    by Adair Turner ...
    Series series Lionel Robbins Lectures
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  • The Economics Anti-Textbook

    A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

    by Rod Hill, Tony Myatt ...
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  • The Economics of Rising Inequalities

    Edited by Daniel Cohen, Thomas Piketty, Gilles Saint-Paul ...
    This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the ... Read more

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  • John Maynard Keynes

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  • American Gridlock

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