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“philipp lepenies”

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  • The Power of a Single Number

    A Political History of GDP

    by Philipp Lepenies ...
    Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance in our political ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    by Gosta Esping-Andersen ...
    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

    by Michael Heinrich ...
    Translated by Alex Locascio ...
    The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism as inherently unstable. And of course, there are those, like Michael Heinrich, who have seen ... Read more

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  • The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

    by Mark Skousen ...
    History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics. The Big Three in Economics traces the turbulent lives and battle of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing ... Read more

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  • German Europe

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of ... Read more

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  • Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    An Introduction

    by Stephan Kaufmann, Ingo Stutzle ...
    Translated by Alexander Locascio ...
    An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental workUS Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense criticism—in a way no other economic or sociological work has in a ... Read more

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  • The Clash of Economic Ideas

    The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years

    by Lawrence H. White ...
    The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events to debates among economists, and from the ideas of academic writers to major experiments in economic ... Read more

    $65.59 CAD

  • Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

    Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world

    by Daniel Woodley ...
    Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial ... Read more

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  • Economics

    by Shalini Saxena ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    The effects of economic decision making are far-reaching. Economics is more than just business—the course of government, society, and more has been determined, to a large degree, by economic players. This comprehensive volume takes a three-pronged approach to introduce readers to the essentials of economics: after providing an overview of basic economic concepts, it chronicles the development of ... Read more

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  • Inequality

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years. Even so, many people remain ... Read more

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  • Lenin and Imperialism

    An Appraisal of Theories and Contemporary Reality

    Edited by Prabhat Patnaik ...
    There are two distinct levels at which Lenin theorised about imperial-ism. At one level he outlined certain tendencies in the phase of monopoly capital which generated situations of actual or potential armed conflict and made for global instability of the international capitalist state system. At another level he explored with this theoretical apparatus, the specific, conjuncture which prevailed ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD