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From Political Economy to Freakonomics
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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. |
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Culture in economics
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Sjoerd Beugelsdijk |
"Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists such as Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, t… |
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A History of Economic Thought
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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… |
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The unschooled mind
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Howard Gardner |
"Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and make… |
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What would the great economists do?
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Linda Y. Yueh |
"Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets. Most of them have won the Nobel … |
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Buddhist economics
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Clair Brown |
"Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning. Clair Brown, an economics professor a… |
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Time and Economics
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Željko Rohatinski |
1 online resource |
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Hunting Causes and Using Them
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Nancy Cartwright |
Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, differen… |
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Can the market speak?
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Campbell Jones |
"It is said the market has moods and desires. It is said that we must listen to it and must anticipate how it will respond to our actions. What is the significance of these peculiar forms of speech? … |
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The theory of the individual in economics
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John Bryan Davis |
"The concept of the individual is central to the understanding of behavior in economics. Different approaches in economics implicitly rely on different theories of the individual. Yet economics is gu… |
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Economic philosophy
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Adelino Zanini |
The book investigates the relationship between the economic and political writings of four seminal authors: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph A. Schumpeter, and John M. Keynes. It underlines how in their… |
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The Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith |
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the poin… |
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