Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Поля, фабрики и мастерские	Peter Kropotkin	Fields, Factories, and Workshops is an 1899 book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin that discusses the decentralization of industries, possibilities of agriculture, and uses of small industries. Before…	OL1105381W
A Different Vision	Thomas D. Boston	This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immens…	OL1135437W
The Trend of Economic Thinking	Friedrich A. von Hayek	This volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised an…	OL1164987W
A Theory of Economic History	Sir John Richard Hicks	Economists are inclined to think of the market economy as always existing, just developing or "growing". Historians —and anthropologists— know very well that this is not the case; quite viable non-ma…	OL1186980W
The social economy	Hasmet M. Uluorta	"Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the econo…	OL11984249W
Economic dynamics	John Stachurski	"Topics covered in detail include nonlinear dynamic systems, finite state Markov chains, stochastic dynamic programming, and stochastic stability and computation of equilibria. The models are predomi…	OL12037970W
The age of uncertainty	John Kenneth Galbraith	The distinguished diplomat and economist surveys the ideas and influence of economists and social philosophers, from Adam Smith's day to the present, contrasting the certainties in ninteenth-century …	OL12560W
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus	Max Weber	In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and th…	OL1362905W
The common good	Noam Chomsky	Someone who knows and gives a damn. Do read this please.	OL15329510W
Neuroeconomics	Ernst Fehr,Colin F. Camerer,Paul W. Glimcher,Russell Alan Poldrack	"Neuroeconomics" is a new highly promising approach to understanding the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. This …	OL15739133W
With all your possessions	Meir Tamari	In face of the age-old slander against Jewish business ethics, noted economist and rabbinic scholar Meir Tamari puts forth a rigorous defense of Jewish economy as a highly ethical system combining fr…	OL1581948W
Key Debates in New Political Economy	Donald MacKenzie	Presents an overview of the major intellectual debates within the field of political economy. This book covers areas such as: models of capitalism; globalization; the environment; gender; territory a…	OL16937737W
Past, present & future of international political economy (IPE)	Catherine Weaver,Nicola Phillips	Essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy (IPE), this book features contributions from the most influential scholars in the f…	OL16988330W
Misbehaving	Richard H. Thaler	Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans―predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arrestin…	OL17940527W
Encyclopedia of economics	Douglas Greenwald	More than 300 articles written by experts on various topics in economics.	OL18133981W
What do economists contribute?	Daniel B. Klein	Economists direct their research mainly to the technical frontiers of the discipline. But the actual decisions of political economy are made not by experts but by ordinary public officials and voters…	OL18265913W
A History of Economic Thought	Lionel Robbins	Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. These lectures, delivered at the L…	OL19366165W
The economics bible	Tejvan Pettinger	"The Economics Bible is an accessible, comprehensive and fully illustrated introduction to the models and mechanics that drive the world of money. The economic theories that have shaped nations for c…	OL19722039W
El mercado de trabajo en el capitalismo periférico	Adriana Marshall	CAPITALISMO PERIFERICO Crisis y transformación En las épocas de estabilidad o de bonanza los hombres prácticos pueden dejar de lado todo reflexión acerca de los supuestos teóricos y valorativos…	OL2236147W
Essays on the nature of commerce in general	Richard Cantillon,a new introduction by Anthony Brewer	"Richard Cantillon is one of the key figures in the early history of economics. He was certainly not the first to think about economic problems, but he was the first to have clear insight into the wa…	OL23704563W