This text seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system.
This text seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown w...
Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic - the propensity to seek support - that has given rise to group formation and the myriad activities that are feasible in groups.
Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-barg...
Max Weber laid the foundations for the meaning of 'charisma' in modern secular usage. This new volume argues for the importance of the 'charismatic principle' in history, economics and society. This volume brings together a number of contributors at the cross section between economics, theology, sociology and politics in order to set a research agenda for the following issues: What does it means to have a 'charism'? How does it work in society? How might one distinguish a 'charism' from a talent? Are 'charism's given only to special people, or are they also present in ordinary people? Is a...
Max Weber laid the foundations for the meaning of 'charisma' in modern secular usage. This new volume argues for the importance of the 'charismatic pr...
This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.
Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that operations enabled by property lead to interest and money, rather than exchange of goods. Like any other approach, it has to answer economic theory's core question: what is the loss that has to be compensated by interest?
Ownership economics accepts neither a temporary loss of goods, as...
This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphas...
The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality. The volume is complemented by a few other papers commissioned by the editors. The contributions cover historical, political, philosophical, sociological and economic aspects.
The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countr...
This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley's work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination of conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving general equilibrium theories of value and money.
This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to...
Former United States President Bill Clinton and the current British Prime Mimister, Tony Blair, have both described their style of government as a 'third way'. Flavio Romano looks at the economic implications of this approach to public governance.
Former United States President Bill Clinton and the current British Prime Mimister, Tony Blair, have both described their style of government as a 'th...
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing enterprise, of its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing ...
