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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ten great economists from Marx to Keynes	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	Originally published in 1952, this seminal work is reproduced here with a new introduction by Professor Mark Perlman, a well-known Schumpeterian scholar. Largely unavailable elsewhere, the essays, wr…	OL10440835W
Principles of Political Economy	John Stuart Mill	The appearance of a treatise like the present, on a subject on which so many works of merit already exist, may be thought to require some explanation. It might perhaps be sufficient to say, that no e…	OL1068184W
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
From Political Economy to Freakonomics	Ben Fine	Shows how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional and pluralistic. Details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and dehistoricisation of the dismal science.	OL135457W
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
The puzzle of modern economics	Roger Backhouse	"This book cuts through the confusion and controversy about whether modern economics has succeeded or failed"--	OL15507631W
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
Contemporary Economics	William A. McEachern	My approach in Contemporary Economics is to remind students how much they already know since they make economic decisions every day. Never has there been a better time to learn economic principles. A…	OL16812341W
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