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  • Ricardo’s Dream

    How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray

    by Nat Dyer ...
    From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’. The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Great Degeneration

    How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective futureWhat causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has ... Read more

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  • How Economics Explains the World

    A Short History of Humanity

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    “If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard UniversityA sweeping, engrossing history of how economic forces have shaped the world—all in under 200 pagesOne of The Economist's Best Books of the YearIn How ... Read more

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  • The Enigma of Capital

    And the Crises of Capitalism

    by David Harvey ...
    For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Garland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Capitalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the ... 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

    $18.39 CAD

  • Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? The book begins by addressing basic issues such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through three detailed and absorbing case studies ranging from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Story of Capital

    What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

    by David Harvey ...
    The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterworkFor decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Configuring the World: A Critical Political Economy Approach

    I truly believe Griffiths’ new introduction in international political economy is unparalleled! It is amazing how different theoretical perspectives, together with their methodological approaches, are lucidly presented… and supported by extraordinarily well-chosen cases examples. First rate; a masterpiece really! Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Rebel Cities

    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    by David Harvey ...
    "David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD