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  • Ethics in Economics

    An Introduction to Moral Frameworks

    by Jonathan B. Wight ...
    In Ethics in Economics , Jonathan B. Wight provides an overview of the role that ethical considerations play in economic debates. Whereas much of the field tends to focus on welfare outcomes, Wight calls for a deeper examination of the origin and evolution of our moral norms. He argues that economic life relies on three interrelated ethical systems: outcome-based, duty- and rule-based, and virtue ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Wealth of Nations

    With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

    by Adam Smith, Jonathan B. Wight, George Osborne MP ...
    The Wealth of Nations is a treasured classic of political economy. First published in March of 1776, Adam Smith wrote the book to influence a special audience – the British Parliament – and its arguments in the early spring of that year pressed for peace and cooperation with Britain's colonies rather than war.Smith's message was that economic exploitation, through the monopoly trade of empire, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Wealth of Nations(Illustrated and Bundled with An Essay on the Principle of Population)

    by Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus ...
    The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:The Wealth of Nations – Adam SmithAn Essay on the Principle of Population – Thomas MalthusThe Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 by Adam Smith and it is one of the most important economic works in economic history since the date. What set Adam Smith’s work apart was the follows:He believed in that ... Read more

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  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    by Douglass C. North ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Edmund Burke

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    by Edmund Burke ...
    This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 11060 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke • Writings of Thomas Paine: The Rights of ManThomas Paine • Selections from the Speeches and Writings • Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Moral Economy

    Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.   But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Adam Smith Classic Collection (Illustrated)

    by Adam Smith ...
    The book also has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the three titles.The Wealth of NationsThe Theory of Moral SentimentsEssays on Philosophical SubjectThe invisible hand of the market in economics is to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace. However, the concept was not phrased in the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Adam Smith first introduced ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Responsibility for Justice

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Forest and the Trees

    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

    by Allan Johnson ...
    New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.This Third Edition features:• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, ... Read more

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  • The Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich’s Introduction both clarifies Smith ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Hand

    by Adam Smith ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate ... Read more

    $5.99 USD