ilość książek w kategorii: 1417
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American Capitalism : The Concept of Countervailing Power
ISBN: 9781560006749 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power. The trade union remains an equalizing force in the labor markets, and the chain store is the best answer to the market power of big food companies. This work remains an essential guidepost of American mores as well as that as of the American economy. In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The ... |
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225,98 zł |
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The Moral Foundations of Civil Society
ISBN: 9781560008521 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wilhelm Roepke may have been the soundest economist of the twentieth century. He understood the limitations as well as the strengths of his discipline. Economists are often tempted to take the easy way out, by denying reality to aspects of human existence and reducing them to arbitrary and subjective tastes and preferences. Roepke never does this, and this is his strength. He realizes that all of these are legitimate aspects of human experience which must be satisfied in a balanced and harmonious social existence. Nature, sex, religion, beauty, and politics are all meaningful as parts of... Wilhelm Roepke may have been the soundest economist of the twentieth century. He understood the limitations as well as the strengths of his discipl... |
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236,26 zł |
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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
ISBN: 9781595551139 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the Davids of the world-the amateur journalists, musicians, and small businessmen and women-are suddenly making a huge economic and social impact. In Army of Davids, author Glenn Reynolds, the man behind the immensely popular Instapundit.com, provides an in-depth, big-picture point-of-view for a world where the small guys matter more and more. Reynolds explores the birth and... There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologie... |
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83,96 zł |
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Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9781856494687 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an analysis of the increasingly differentiated regions of the South, the former Eastern bloc countries and Western Europe. The author integrates his economic arguments about the nature of the crisis with political arguments based on his vision of human history as the product of social response to material realities. The book analyzes the rise of ethnicity and fundametalism, and deconstructs the Bretton Woods institutions - notably the IMF and the World Bank - as managerial mechanisms proptecting the profitability of capital.
This is an analysis of the increasingly differentiated regions of the South, the former Eastern bloc countries and Western Europe. The author integrat...
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154,07 zł |
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Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order
ISBN: 9781888363821 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world's most powerful military spend ten years fighting an enemy that presents no direct threat to secure resources for corporations?
The... Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks ta...
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117,73 zł |
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Introduction Into Capital Theory: A Neo-Austrian Perspective
ISBN: 9783540593508 / Angielski / Twarda / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capital theory is a cornerstone of modern economics. Its ideas are fundamental for dynamic equilibrium theory and its concepts are applied in many branches of economics like game theory, resource and environmental economics, although this may not be recognized on a first glance. In this monograph, an approach is presented, which allows to derive important results of capital theory in a coherent and readily accessible framework. A special emphasis is given on infinite horizon and overlapping generations economics. Irreversibility of time, or the failure of the market system appear in a...
Capital theory is a cornerstone of modern economics. Its ideas are fundamental for dynamic equilibrium theory and its concepts are applied in many bra...
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193,19 zł |
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Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology: Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan
ISBN: 9783540610359 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book has two subjects, first the ethical theory of the economic order, and secondly the critique of sociobiology and its theory of evolution. The first part, the ethics of capitalism, analyzes the rise of capitalism and the business ethics and moral theory of a capitalist economic order in a perspective from philosophy and economics. The second part, a critique of sociobiology, gives a philosophical assessment of sociobiology's contribution to the theory of the economy and society and of its impact for metaphysics and a general world view. James M. Buchanan, Nobel prize winner in...
The book has two subjects, first the ethical theory of the economic order, and secondly the critique of sociobiology and its theory of evolution. The ...
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386,41 zł |
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The Theory of Capitalism in the German Economic Tradition: Historism, Ordo-Liberalism, Critical Theory, Solidarism
ISBN: 9783540666745 / Angielski / Twarda / 575 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of capitalism and of the economic order is the central topic of the German economic tradition in the 20th century. Capitalism has not only been the topic for Marxist economics and for the Frankfurt School but also for the Historical School and for the postmarxist theory of capitalism in Ordo- and Neo-Liberalism as well as in Solidarism. The question of the foundations of the economic order of the market economy and of capitalism as well as the problem whether a third path between capitalism and social- ism is possible occupied this tradition from the Historical School to Ordo-...
The theory of capitalism and of the economic order is the central topic of the German economic tradition in the 20th century. Capitalism has not only ...
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579,64 zł |
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Reflexive Representations: Politics, Hegemony, and Discourse in Global Capitalism
ISBN: 9783825872380 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions, and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be defined under the buzzword, "globalization." While this term has the merit of bringing more fluency to the concept of capitalist dynamics, it simultaneously points to a crisis of representation both in political and epistemological terms. These contributions from the social sciences and humanities assess some of the manifold aspects of the globalization crisis.
This volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions, and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be defined under the ...
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107,88 zł |
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Max Weber and the Spirit of Modern Capitalism - 100 Years on
ISBN: 9780955630002 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,70 zł |
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Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity
ISBN: 9780761956525 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neoliberalism and deregulation have come to dominate national and international political economy. This major book addresses this convergence and analyzes the implications for the future of capitalist diversity. It provides a practical and informed analysis of the public policy choices facing governments and business around the world.
Neoliberalism and deregulation have come to dominate national and international political economy. This major book addresses this convergence and anal...
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863,04 zł |
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Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work
ISBN: 9780745611747 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new biography provides an engaging and vivid account of Schumpeter's varied life, including his ventures into politics and private banking as well as his academic career. As a backdrop to these, Swedberg also discusses Schumpeter's tragic personal life.
This book provides a thorough overview of Schumpeter's writings, and also introduces previously unpublished material based on his letters and interviews. Swedberg emphasizes that Schumpeter saw... Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new...
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108,10 zł |
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Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism: A Common Sense Analysis
ISBN: 9780230549326 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsci's 'common sense' provides us with the conceptual apparatus necessary for analysing the integral role played by culture and consensus in the trajectories of national capitalisms in Europe.
Using two milestones in the Dutch and German political economies - Wassenaar and Alliance for Jobs respectively - this book argues that Antonio Gramsc...
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193,19 zł |
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Virtues of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780865975422 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Economics during Friedrich Hayek's time there. For over thirty years he was Editorial Director of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, where his publishing program was one of the principal influences on governments all around the world, persuading them to liberalise their economies. Works of Arthur Seldon, presents the foundation of Seldon's views and theories of capitalism and its alternatives. Entitled Corrigible Capitalism;...
Arthur Seldon was born in 1916 and has been writing on classical liberal economics since the 1930s, when he was a student at the London School of Econ...
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100,80 zł |
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The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism
ISBN: 9780801439179 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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277,41 zł |
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The Super-Rich: The Unjust New World of Global Capitalism
ISBN: 9780333764282 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Super-Rich, Stephen Haseler describes the dangerous growing tensions caused throughout the West by the triumphant new global capitalism. In a book for students of politics, economics and sociology, and the general reader, he outlines how a new global super-rich caste has emerged during a period in which the traditional 'middle-class' is facing serious insecurity and income loss. He argues that this new super-rich capitalism, if not balanced by a renewal of the state and community, will not only destroy politics and governance, but democracy as well, and he shows exactly how the...
In The Super-Rich, Stephen Haseler describes the dangerous growing tensions caused throughout the West by the triumphant new global capitalism. In a b...
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386,41 zł |
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Preference, Production and Capital: Selected Papers of Hirofumi Uzawa
ISBN: 9780521361743 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers collected here deal with various topics in economic theory, ranging from preference and consumption, duality and production, equilibrium, capital, and growth, to the theory of social overhead capital. They all have a common theme: to try to formulate the working of economic forces in a capitalist economy in terms of mathematical models and to explore their static, dynamic, and welfare implications. Most of the papers were originally published during the 1960s and early 1970s.
The papers collected here deal with various topics in economic theory, ranging from preference and consumption, duality and production, equilibrium, c...
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699,72 zł |
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On Globalization: Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780333717394 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with the key changes brought about in the economy by advanced technology and organisational and institutional innovations, the author elucidates their impact on industrial systems, accumulation, firms and the processes of European integration. This approach enables the reader to establish the links in the conceptual jungle to real processes and to chart clearly, by eliminating chaos and chance factors, the interlocking grid of political destabilization and economic marginalization that the advance of capitalist globalization has introduced in all countries.
Beginning with the key changes brought about in the economy by advanced technology and organisational and institutional innovations, the author elucid...
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386,41 zł |
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The Economic Writings of William Thornton
ISBN: 9781851963881 / Angielski / Twarda / 1920 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thornton's writings are central to the history of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Thornton has been cast as a minor player in John Stuart Mill's recantation of the wages fund doctrine. This text should show how he played a major role.
Thornton's writings are central to the history of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Tho...
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3339,14 zł |
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Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform : Into the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781551930268 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of this volume continues his examination of the undermining of the conditions of social democracy by clarifying the definition of globalization and further exploring its historical backbround.
The author of this volume continues his examination of the undermining of the conditions of social democracy by clarifying the definition of globaliza...
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133,52 zł |