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  • Adam’s Fallacy

    A Guide to Economic Theology

    by Duncan K. Foley ...
    This book could be called “The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Economics.” Like Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Thorstein Veblen. The ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Growth and Distribution

    Second Edition

    by Duncan K. Foley, Thomas R. Michl, Daniele Tavani ...
    A major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corporate capitalism, and innovation.Authors Duncan Foley, Thomas Michl, and Daniele Tavani present Classical and Keynesian approaches to growth theory, in parallel with Neoclassical ones, and introduce students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Making Statistics Work

    Information Theory and Bayesian Inference

    by Duncan Foley, Ellis Scharfenaker ...
    Conventional “frequentist” methods that dominate the field of statistics are generally inconsistent and liable to catastrophic failure in some contexts. These weaknesses have become particularly concerning in relation to crises of replicability and credibility in science. Two alternatives have been proposed to address these flaws—classical Bayesian inference and the principle of maximum entropy ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Unholy Trinity

    Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy

    by Duncan K. Foley ...
    Series series The Graz Schumpeter Lectures
    Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.An Unholy Trinity explores the relations between contemporary complex systems theory and classical political economy, and applies the methods it develops to the pro ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Patrick McGrath and his Worlds

    Madness and the Transnational Gothic

    Edited by Matt Foley, Rebecca Duncan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath’s transnational status as an English author resident in New York, his pointed manipulation of British and American contexts, and his clear apprehension of imperial legacies have all come into sharper focus. By bringing together readings cognizant of this transnational and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Production, Distribution and Trade

    Alternative Perspectives

    Edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz D. Kurz, Bertram Schefold, Ian Steedman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    This collection brings together significant new contributions to the Sraffa--based theories of production and distribution, from post-Keynesian arguments concerning monetary and macro economics to the history of thought and methodology. All of the authors are well established authorities in their field, and in this book they add stimulating and original pieces of analysis to the contemporary ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

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  • Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

    by David Harvey ...
    "What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction To modern Western society, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Global Political Economy

    Understanding the International Economic Order

    by Robert G. Gilpin ...
    This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    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

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  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

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  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

    by David Harvey ...
    Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to ... Read more

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