Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

Author: John McMillan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003-10-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0393323714

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McMillan takes readers on a lively tour, from the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-communist economies.


Endogenous Growth Theory

Endogenous Growth Theory

Author: Philippe Aghion

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9780262011662

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"Problems and solutions by Cecilia Garcâia-Peänalosa in collaboration with Jan Boone, Chol-Won Li, and Lucy White." Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-687) and index.


Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics

Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics

Author: Samuel Decker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1351711482

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The complex economic problems of the 21st century require a pluralist, real-world oriented and innovative discipline of economics that is capable of addressing and teaching these issues to students. This volume is a state-of-the-art compilation of diverse, innovative and international perspectives on the rationales for and pathways towards pluralist economics teaching. It fosters constructive controversy aiming to incite authors and commentators to engage in fruitful debates. This volume addresses a number of key questions: Why is it important for a social science to engage in pluralistic teaching? What issues does pluralist teaching face in different national contexts? Which traditions and practices in economic teaching make pluralist teaching difficult? What makes economics as a canonical textbook science particular and how could the rigid textbook system be innovated in a meaningful way? What can we learn from school education and other social science disciplines? Through examining these issues the editors have created a pluralist but cohesive book on teaching economics in the contemporary classroom drawing from ideas and examples from around the world. Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics offers a valuable insight into the methodology and application of pluralist economics teaching. It will be a great resource for those teaching economics at various levels, as well as researchers.


Not on the Label

Not on the Label

Author: Felicity Lawrence

Publisher: Viking

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241967829

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An expose of the state of the food production industry in Britain. The author looks at some of the most popular foods we eat to show how the food industry causes ill health, environmental damage, urban blight, starving small-holders in Africa and Asia, and illegal labourers exploited in Britain.


Debunking Economics

Debunking Economics

Author: Steve Keen

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2001-07-28

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781856499927

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What is the score card for economics at the start of the new millennium? While there are many different schools of economic thought, it is the neo-classical school, with its alleged understanding and simplistic advocacy of the market, that has become equated in the public mind with economics. This book shows that virtually every aspect of conventional neo-classical economics' thinking is intellectually unsound. Steve Keen draws on an impressive array of advanced critical thinking. He constitutes a profound critique of the principle concepts, theories, and methodologies of the mainstream discipline. Keen raises grave doubts about economics' pretensions to established scientific status and its reliability as a guide to understanding the real world of economic life and its policy-making.


Indianomix

Indianomix

Author: Vivek Dehejia

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2015-03-06

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 8184003668

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A quirky look at India using popular economics Why does the stock exchange dip during a lunar eclipse? Why don’t cars with safety features lead to fewer injuries? Why did Nehru ignore the Chinese threat in the lead-up to the 1962 war? Why is it that a stranger might risk his life to save yours on one day, and a street full of passers-by might casually watch you bleed to death on another? Why did pollsters wrongly predict a BJP victory in 2004, and what was the real reason for their defeat? And why is India’s Independence Day not, in fact, on the day on which it’s celebrated? In pithy, sparkling, bite-sized chapters, economists Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya tackle these seeming mysteries and unearth the real reasons why ‘we are like this only’. The answers are entertaining and surprising at every turn, and reveal a picture of modern India as never seen before.


Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular

Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular

Author: Mathieu Courville

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-02-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0826437559

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Contends that Said's interpretation of the secular is not the utter opposite of religion in the modern globalized world.


Oil and Gas in Federal Systems

Oil and Gas in Federal Systems

Author: George Anderson

Publisher: OUP Canada

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195447323

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Oil and Gas in Federal Systems, the first book-length work of its kind, presents a unique examination of the economic and political consequences of the world's reliance on fossil fuels. Twenty-four respected scholars in the areas of petroleum policy and federal systems examine in detail oil and gas management and revenue regimes in a dozen key federations: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, the United States, and Venezuela. The history and development of each country's oil and gas industry is placed within the broader context of that nation's overall economic and political development.