Illustrating an insightful contrast between modern scientific and economic approaches, and the Buddhist viewpoint, this book examines key environmental issues such as species protection, pollution, natural resource use and global climate...
The Distribution of Wealth is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the personal distribution of wealth. Michael Schneider uses data from fifteen countries to demonstrate how inequality in the distribution of wealth both...
This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the ess...
David M. Gordon, Samuel Bowles, Thomas E. Weisskopf
David Gordon was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of institutional growth economics, introducing the concept of a ‘social structure of accumulation’, and richly illustrating its usefulness with both econometric and historical studies. ...
This important book applies a post-Keynesian perspective to the financial problems of economic development, restructuring in Eastern Europe, and the creation of a single market in the European Union. Distinguished authors have prepare...
Oskar Lange was one of the few economists able to observe first hand the three major economic systems that have been the hallmark of the 20th century. He learned about the economic backwardness of peripheral capitalism in pre-war Poland...
This important book goes beyond generalizations and takes a hard-headed look at the real strengths and weaknesses of Keynesian demand management and supply side economics. Keynesianism has failed to reconcile high levels of competitiven...
Economic Theory and Capitalist Society is a collection of Shigeto Tsuru’s most important essays written over the period of the past 60 years in the fields of general economic theory, development and environmental economics, and Marxian p...
Has the rate of profit been falling in industrialised countries? What are the factors that are responsible for its increase over time and what factors account for its decline. The rate of profit is a key economic variable. It directly...
