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  • Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

    by Aboubakar S. Sanogo, Neil Parsons, Martin Mhando, Roy Armes, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Sheila Petty, Arnold Shepperson, Martin P. Botha, Esiaba Irobi, Suzanne H. MacRae, Jude G. Akudinobi ...
    Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Economy and Society

    A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory

    by Talcot Parsons, Neil Smelser ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Mfecane Aftermath

    Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History

    by Carolyn Hamilton, Thomas Dowson, Elizabeth Eldredge, Norman Etherington, Jan-Bart Gewald, Simon Hall, Guy Hartley, Margaret Kinsman, Andrew Manson, John Omer-Cooper0, Neil Parsons1, Jeff Peires2, Christopher Saunders3, Alan Webster4, John Wright5, Dan Wylie6 ...
    The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history.Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period – the ‘mfecane’- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Sociological Theory – A Contemporary View: How to Read, Criticize and Do Theory

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    A pithy and clear guide to the process of creating and evaluating theory in the social sciences. Using a simple model of theory creation and assessment--and applying it in depth to foundational and still-relevant social and economic theorists such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons--Neil Smelser shows the way to a better understanding of what social theory is supposed to accomplish and how it can be ... Read more

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  • Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

    by Daniel Hausman, Michael McPherson, Debra Satz ...
    This book shows through argument and numerous policy-related examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists' analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores the idea of rationality and its connections to ethics, arguing that when they defend their formal ... Read more

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  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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    Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

    by Javier Aranzadi ...
    Series series Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
    The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the Chicago School and the last two of the Austrian School, it is often concluded that the theories of both schools are similar. This book ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'

    A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency

    by Andrew Kliman ...
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  • Capital and Time

    For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason

    by Martijn Konings ...
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