{"title":"Economics","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"le-courage-du-bon-sens","title":"Le Courage du bon sens: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée","description":"\u003cp\u003eHonte, colère et espoir : tels sont les premiers mots de cet ouvrage dans lequel l’auteur parle librement et sans concession à la langue de bois. Dans cette édition entièrement mise à jour, il rappelle que la contagion de la crise financière à l’économie réelle ne doit pas faire oublier la belle époque de croissance du début du XXIe siècle. Michel Godet scrute l’avenir en confiance. Les crises sont porteuses d’espoir et les beaux jours reviendront. Avec un peu de courage et un minimum de bon sens, il est possible de construire l’avenir autrement qu’en prenant dans la poche de nos enfants et en laissant filer la dette publique. La France a tort d’avoir peur de l’avenir, car la plupart des idées reçues s’avèrent infondées : la mondialisation n’est pas coupable, le principe de précaution peut être dangereux, la planète surabonde de pétrole cher, le vieillissement est une bonne nouvelle, il est aussi possible de créer des centaines de milliers d’emplois marchands et d’éviter la paupérisation des familles. Car il n’est de richesses que d’hommes éduqués, épanouis, dans une société de confiance et de projets.Michel Godet est professeur au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Il est aussi membre de l’Académie des technologies et du Conseil d’analyse économique. Son précédent ouvrage, Le Choc de 2006, a reçu le prix du Livre d’économie.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153160753329,"sku":"356d73cd-6cda-3128-a1e5-872cc0c67af0","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_ede82578-1ca9-4c45-8ed9-2cb26ff051d0.jpg?v=1762935886"},{"product_id":"studies-in-the-national-balance-sheet-of-the-united-states-volume-1","title":"Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the United States, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume I of this study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1963.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153149939889,"sku":"9780691651798","price":284.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153149972657,"sku":"9780691625331","price":110.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a0c84313-eda2-402e-8619-3f2d0e4c079f.jpg?v=1764393723"},{"product_id":"globalization-in-historical-perspective","title":"Globalization in Historical Perspective","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAs awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of the few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade. Its eleven papers explore a synthesized variety of topics, including how the process of globalization can be measured by the long-term integration of markets, what trends and questions develop as markets converge and diverge, what roles technology and geography play, the effect of globalization on inequality and social justice, and the roles of political institutions in responding to such injustices. Ultimately this work provides a panoramic view of globalization, one that will offer much to readers interested in this crucial issue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume reads, in some ways, like a handbook of the history of globalization. . . . It should prove valuable to any scholar interested in the long and winding course the international economy has taken. . . . Together, [the articles] remind readers just how much may be at stake in the process of economic integration, and just how important a well-articulated understanding of that process may be in guiding the political responses to globalization. In that regard, this volume makes a valuable contribution.\"—William J. Collins, \u003ci\u003eEH.net \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153890726065,"sku":"9780226066004","price":96.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6a606ed8-bcf0-4c2e-8a34-df9de9d746f5.jpg?v=1763340680"},{"product_id":"unseasonal-migrations","title":"Unseasonal Migrations: The Effects of Rural Labor Scarcity in Peru","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities. Such labor scarcity often results in \"unseasonal\" ecological damage and the deterioration of social relations. Professor Collins focuses on a particular instance in which migration has created labor scarcity: the seasonal journeys of Aymara-speaking highland peasants to east Andean valleys, where they grow coffee. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that labor is an abundant resource in developing countries, the Aymara's situation illustrates a problem common throughout the Third World. Although it was presumed in the 1940s and 1950s that the Aymara would permanently colonize the valley region, they have not done so. This book demonstrates that the unfavorable price for which they must sell their coffee forces them to maintain highland food crop production. Their poor position in the coffee market thus blocks their permanent migration and their ability to make more intensive capital or labor investments in coffee growing. The author argues convincingly that the rural labor scarcity produced by their migrations generates ecological decline in the lowlands and intracommunity conflicts and declining networks of production in the highlands. In discussing the Aymara, she confronts a Third World problem of broad theoretical significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153895051441,"sku":"9780691600581","price":64.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153895084209,"sku":"9780691654102","price":149.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f5719790-1889-468c-9d32-2022bc90a5ed.jpg?v=1763680582"},{"product_id":"the-winding-road-to-the-welfare-state","title":"The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? \u003ci\u003eThe Winding Road to the Welfare State\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the evolution of living standards and welfare policies in Britain from the 1830s to 1950 and provides insights into how British working-class households coped with economic insecurity. George Boyer examines the retrenchment in Victorian poor relief, the Liberal Welfare Reforms, and the beginnings of the postwar welfare state, and he describes how workers altered spending and saving methods based on changing government policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the cutting back of the Poor Law after 1834 to Parliament’s abrupt about-face in 1906 with the adoption of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, Boyer offers new explanations for oscillations in Britain’s social policies and how these shaped worker well-being. The Poor Law’s increasing stinginess led skilled manual workers to adopt self-help strategies, but this was not a feasible option for low-skilled workers, many of whom continued to rely on the Poor Law into old age. In contrast, the Liberal Welfare Reforms were a major watershed, marking the end of seven decades of declining support for the needy. Concluding with the Beveridge Report and Labour’s social policies in the late 1940s, Boyer shows how the Liberal Welfare Reforms laid the foundations for a national social safety net.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping look at economic pressures after the Industrial Revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Winding Road to the Welfare State\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how British welfare policy waxed and waned over the course of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153893806257,"sku":"9780691217116","price":56.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153893839025,"sku":"9780691178738","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153893871793,"sku":"b4e42e9a-c206-3ec6-bcbc-a212f89881e5","price":59.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5cf460b0-4fed-4eb2-918c-af3176939ee8.jpg?v=1763631722"},{"product_id":"the-golden-age-of-the-quantity-theory","title":"The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did neoclassical monetary economics, as epitomized by the work of Fisher, Wicksell, and the Cambridge School, evolve from the classical orthodoxy that dominated economics in the 1870s? To answer this question, David Laidler considers the interaction of theoretical developments with contemporary policy debates about bimetallism and the evolution of the gold exchange standard. He argues that neoclassical monetary economics, in which the quantity theory of money played a central role, laid the intellectual groundwork for the replacement of the gold standard by various managed monetary systems in the years following World War I. Laidler is one of the world's foremost experts on monetary economics, and this book provides an illuminating account and analysis of one of the most important periods in the development of that field. Scholars of the history of economic thought and all monetary economists will find that The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory is the most systematic treatment of the development of monetary economics between 1870 and 1914 currently available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153902063793,"sku":"9780691632667","price":149.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153902096561,"sku":"9780691603315","price":65.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_26b7f310-2565-4191-89a0-05b1c5d5d2b3.jpg?v=1763717747"},{"product_id":"the-politics-of-economic-power-in-southern-africa","title":"The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book questions the notion that South Africa can exert effective political leverage over its economically dependent neighbors while itself remaining free of regional influences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1987.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153898852529,"sku":"9780691637754","price":250.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153898885297,"sku":"9780691609461","price":102.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2d2d6527-ec6d-4565-af31-6ad24a05d012.jpg?v=1763714741"},{"product_id":"perestroika-in-perspective","title":"Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eMikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political reforms, it raises intriguing and important questions: Are Gorbachev's ideas different from the Kosygin-Brezhnev reform of 1965 that came to naught? What kinds of problems do the Russians have in understanding the market system? Who opposes perestroika? Do Gorbachev's proposals threaten his own future as Soviet leader? How does perestroika relate to a more general environment of openness, of glasnost? What happened at the June 1988 Party Conference? And, above all, is the old order really giving way to a new one? Or does Gorbachev aim at \"capitalist icing on a socialist cake\"?.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo answer these questions and others, Padma Desai, a distinguished pioneer in the modern econometric analysis of the Soviet economy, has distilled from Gorbachev's myriad decrees the outlines of his strategy for doing away with the Soviet Union's long-term economic malaise. Focusing on the key areas of industry, agriculture, services, and foreign trade, she discusses specific blueprints for change and evaluates the possibilities for their success. Skillfully combining charts, photographs, cartoons, and quotes, this book offers a unique and coherent view of the strategy underlying Gorbachev's reform efforts to date--and does so gracefully and with sparkle, in terms completely understandable to the layperson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154085138609,"sku":"9780691631769","price":141.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154085171377,"sku":"9780691602226","price":60.23,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f3089efe-ca4e-4d67-bf5c-52c8eef093d6.jpg?v=1763717747"},{"product_id":"the-carbon-bubble","title":"The Carbon Bubble: What Happens To Us When It Bursts","description":"\u003cb\u003eAs the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for more pipelines like Keystone XL across the continent to bring that bitumen to market. Anyone who objects to pipelines and tanker-train traffic, north or south of the US border, is labeled a dreamer, or worse—an environmentalist: someone who puts the health of the planet ahead of the economic survival of their neighbours.\u003cbr\u003e     In \u003ci\u003eThe Carbon Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how an economic vision that rests on oil is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US—where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking—are quickly turning the oil dream into an economic nightmare. Like U.S. coal stocks, the share values of oil-sands producers have been drastically reduced by falling fuel prices and are increasingly exposed to the world's efforts to reduce carbon emissions.\u003cbr\u003e     Rubin argues that there is a lifeline to a better future. The very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: its water and its land. In tomorrow's economy, he argues, Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the makings of one of the world's great breadbaskets, as everything from the corn belt to viniculture heads to higher latitudes. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, growing food will soon be a lot more valuable than mining bitumen.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154081501361,"sku":"9780345814708","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154081534129,"sku":"a61d7953-7fe0-3df1-81f8-c996cde0dfa8","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6930348f-dd6d-4f94-8caa-2be73f21cf31.jpg?v=1763638200"},{"product_id":"antitrust-economics-on-trial","title":"Antitrust Economics on Trial: A Dialogue on the New Laissez-Faire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote \"consumer welfare\"? Is there a painful trade-off between market dominance and economic \"efficiency\"? What is the proper role of government in this area? In recent years the public policy debate on these core questions has been marked by a cacophony of divergent opinions--theorists against empiricists, apostles of the \"new learning\" against defenders of the traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm, \"laissez-faire\" advocates against \"interventionists.\" Utilizing a distinctively innovative format, Walter Adams and James Brock examine these issues in the context of a courtroom dialogue among a proponent of the new learning (Chicago School), a prosecuting attorney, and a U.S. district judge. In contrast to bloodless \"scientific\" treatises or ideologically inspired polemical tracts, this book lays bare the central arguments in the debate about free-market economics and the latent assumptions and disguised terminology on which those arguments are based. The dialogue is both gripping and entertaining--designed by the authors to be reminiscent at times of the Theater of the Absurd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154086351025,"sku":"9780691631646","price":130.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154086383793,"sku":"9780691602073","price":56.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1284b116-d129-486f-b131-d8107b44ff5c.jpg?v=1763717748"},{"product_id":"labor-visions-and-state-power","title":"Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1993.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (2016)","offer_id":46154082844849,"sku":"9780691630069","price":179.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154082877617,"sku":"9780691600086","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover (1990)","offer_id":46154082910385,"sku":"9780520064263","price":89.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_46145943-d367-45cb-a0e4-3750842e276c.jpg?v=1757114905"},{"product_id":"ricardian-politics","title":"Ricardian Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew deny that the work of economists has often embodied or stimulated significant contributions to political thought. Smith, Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are good examples. However, the work of the great classical economist David Ricardo is not usually placed in such company. Despite Ricardo's affiliations with philosophical radicals like Bentham and James Mill, the most that previous scholars have been prepared to allow is that if Ricardo spoke to political questions at all, he addressed only economic policy. This book argues forcefully for a revision of that received opinion. Murray Milgate and Shannon Stimson show that Ricardo articulated a distinctive political vision, and that he did so in a novel and sophisticated way by linking arguments for democratic reform with the conclusions of political economy. Ricardian Politics examines compelling but neglected evidence of how Ricardo deployed economic theory to construct a new view of politics. Milgate and Stimson analyze the case he made for a more inclusive political society and for a more representative and democratic government, discuss how his argument was structured by his economics, and explicitly draw out comparisons with Bentham and James Mill. Ricardo wrote at a critical moment, which saw the consolidation of capitalist industry and the emergence of modern democratic political ideology. By attending to the historical context, this book recovers a more accurate picture of his thought, while contributing to the current renewal of research on the relationship between economic and political thought in early nineteenth-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154086187185,"sku":"9780691632889","price":130.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154086219953,"sku":"9780691603582","price":56.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5ce3716b-9f9e-4e16-8541-33763768a752.jpg?v=1763717748"},{"product_id":"on-natural-capital","title":"On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the man that the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ecalls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a simple yet profound question—what if we put a value on nature, just as we put a value on everything else? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor just about everything of value in life, there is an economic model. If it matters to us, we have found a way to put a dollar amount on it—to quantify its importance in our lives and society. These models and metrics tell us that our economies are healthy because they are growing. And yet for as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture; they fail to account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for \u003cem\u003efree \u003c\/em\u003eand treat as \u003cem\u003einfinite\u003c\/em\u003e: nature. Indeed, for centuries we have been using nature as if it were limitless, but more than ever, we are recognizing that our demands on the natural world are unsustainable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eOn Natural Capital\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta lays out a seminal new approach to economics that asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else? Rooted in mankind’s struggle against climate change, Dasgupta’s approach examines the existential need to rethink our relationship to nature and see its preservation as an economic imperative. Challenging much of economic thought that has come before, Dasgupta presents an urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics with a profound new model—one so radical that only an economist of his stature could make the world take it seriously. \u003cem\u003eOn Natural Capital\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154233151665,"sku":"9780063454385","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154233184433,"sku":"099f6986-35fa-3db4-a6ea-d567d70158ac","price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_306ffea3-b3f5-4b30-a43f-fac912777692.jpg?v=1763513445"},{"product_id":"superfreakonomics","title":"Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuperFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e was an instant \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller that caused a media uproar, continuing the amazing success begun with the groundbreaking, worldwide sensation \u003cem\u003eFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eSuperFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy are doctors so bad at washing their hands? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow much good do car seats do? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat’s the best way to catch a terrorist? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat do hurricanes, heart attacks and highway deaths have in common? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAre people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan eating kangaroo save the planet?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is—good, bad, ugly and, in the final analysis, super-freaky. \u003cem\u003eFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e has been imitated many times over, but only now, with \u003cem\u003eSuperFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e, has it met its match.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154194223281,"sku":"9781554686094","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46832122855634,"sku":"daf854a6-315e-4e95-a68e-9467edf4cb3c","price":2.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_abc80e28-6ced-4a5f-b2b6-92589e41275c.jpg?v=1763222691"},{"product_id":"chokepoint-capitalism","title":"Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon’s use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook’s siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels’ use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct “anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the book’s second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that’s being heisted away—before it’s too late.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154287906993,"sku":"9780807012659","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154287939761,"sku":"9780807007068","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154287972529,"sku":"9135ed1f-f6b3-3911-88da-b3cea15f3cc8","price":13.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5de0a788-0c4c-48eb-8290-f2a7df48529a.jpg?v=1764394607"},{"product_id":"les-regles-economiques-et-leurs-usages","title":"Les Règles économiques et leurs usages","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorsqu’un patron donne un ordre à un salarié, comment celui-ci doit-il l’exécuter ? Avec quel engagement ? Avec quelle intensité ? D’une façon générale, sur quelles bases s’établit la confiance réciproque entre employés et employeurs ? Dans une société où toutes les relations entre les hommes sont soumises à des règles contractuelles, comment l’économie y échapperait-elle ? Les rapports économiques ne seraient-ils qu’une question de prix ? Dans ce livre, Bénédicte Reynaud montre, au plus près de la réalité vécue par les partenaires économiques, qu’il n’en est rien. Son analyse, menée au plan macroéconomique sur l’exemple de la désindexation des salaires en 1983 et au plan microéconomique sur l’introduction d’une prime de rendement à la RATP entre 1993 et 2001, nous montre quel type de règles suit le jeu de l’économie. Elle nous restitue ainsi, dans toute son humanité, la vie économique. Bénédicte Reynaud Bénédicte Reynaud, économiste, est directrice de recherche au CNRS.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154068361393,"sku":"153c33e4-dfe2-32c2-80f6-4f0416d5d1e6","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_0a477167-bc23-491b-b484-01fba4cfcbee.jpg?v=1762935326"},{"product_id":"joseph-alois-schumpeter","title":"Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life Of A Private Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this major scholarly study of the life of Joseph A. Schumpeter, one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the distinguished economist Wolfgang Stolper delves into the mind of his former teacher, exploring the development of his ideas and, especially, their influence on politics and public policy. After reflecting briefly on Schumpeter the man, Stolper explains the evolution of Schumpeter's work, particularly his insights during the 1920s on public finance, his contributions to monetary theory and the study of business cycles, and his writings on socialism. Stolper goes on to desribe and evaluate Schumpeter's public activities following World War I and his role as a finance minister, placing the development of his thought in the turbulence political context of his times.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a vast array of new and exciting sources, Stolper paints a portrait of his mentor as a decent, ambitious, and complex man whose many insights into economy and society found their way outside of the academy and into the practical world of economic policy. All readers interested in the history of economic thought and twentieth-century political and intellectual history will find this book invaluable.\u003cbr\u003eWolfgang Stolper is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Structure of the East German Economy and Planning Without Facts and has made seminal contributions to international economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154091233457,"sku":"9780691607665","price":118.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154091266225,"sku":"9780691656311","price":304.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e5d0e9b9-fe2e-4b8c-a71f-ec3a4cc73346.jpg?v=1764388664"},{"product_id":"brewed-in-michigan","title":"Brewed in Michigan: The New Golden Age of Brewing in the Great Beer State","description":"\u003ci\u003eBrewed in Michigan: The New Golden Age of Brewing in the Great Beer State\u003c\/i\u003e is William Rapai's \"Ode on a Grecian Urn\"?a discussion of art and art's audience. The art in this case is beer. Craft beer. Michigan craft beer, to be exact. Like the Great Lakes and the automobile, beer has become a part of Michigan's identity. In 2016, Michigan ranked fifth in the number of craft breweries in the nation and tenth in the nation in craft beer production. Craft brewing now contributes more than $1.8 billion annually to the state's economy and is proving to be an economic catalyst, helping to revive declining cities and invigorate neighborhoods. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not a beer-tasting guide. Instead, Rapai aims to highlight the unique forces behind and exceptional attributes of the leading craft breweries in Michigan. Through a series of interviews with brewmasters over an eighteenth-month sojourn to microbreweries around the state, the author argues that Michigan craft beer is brewed by individuals with a passion for excellence who refuse to be process drones. It is brewed by people who have created a culture that values quality over quantity and measures tradition and innovation in equal parts. Similarly, the taprooms associated with these craft breweries have become a conduit for conversation?places for people to gather and discuss current events, raise money for charities, and search for ways to improve their communities. They're places where strangers become friends, friends fall in love, and lovers get married. These brewpubs and taprooms are an example in resourcefulness?renovating old churches and abandoned auto dealerships in Michigan's biggest cities, tiny suburbs, working-class neighborhoods, and farm towns. Beer, as it turns out, can be the lifeblood of a community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrewed in Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for beer enthusiasts and for people who want a better understanding of what makes Michigan beer special. Cheers!","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46638271922386,"sku":"c047c901-9637-330f-8a5f-279e2731b161","price":34.26,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46703826010322,"sku":"9780814342107","price":45.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6226867f-5f53-4b8e-b997-ff403c862e4a.jpg?v=1763228741"},{"product_id":"routledge-international-handbook-of-complexity-economics","title":"Routledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe\u003ci\u003eRoutledge International Handbook of Complexity Economics\u003c\/i\u003ecovers the historical developments and early concerns of complexity theorists and brings them into engagement with the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, a distinguished group of international scholars explore the state of the art of complexity economics, and how it may deliver new and relevant insights to the challenges of the 21st century. Complexity science started in 1899 when Henri Poincaré described the three-body problem. The first approaches in economics emerged somewhat later, in the 1980s, driven by the Brussels-Austin school. Since then, complexity economics has gone through numerous developments: departing from linear simplifications, applying physical algorithms, to evolutionary economics and big data. This book covers the basic principles and methods, and offers an overview of the various domains-ranging from diverse fields of productivity studies, agricultural economics, to monetary economics-as well as the current challenges such as climate change, epidemics and economic inequality where complexity economics can provide insight. It closes with a review of complexity political economy and policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a vibrant alternative to orthodox economics, this handbook is a crucial resource for advanced students, researchers and economists across the disciplines of heterodox economics, economic theory and econophysics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154249666737,"sku":"9780367634216","price":555.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154249699505,"sku":"d78552de-b9c3-3f82-ae20-0144c12ab6ae","price":99.06,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47069758423250,"sku":"9780367634247","price":100.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_711f9cb7-dc6d-44d6-aab7-fd0db08b3bf6.jpg?v=1763680595"},{"product_id":"esg-the-insights-you-need-from-harvard-business-review","title":"ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStep past the ESG culture wars and make better decisions for your business.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbracing ESG—environmental, social, and governance goals—isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't understand and address their material long-term risks may save a few dollars today, but the truth is they're putting themselves and their investors in jeopardy. Even so, ESG has become a political flash point. How can you navigate all of the noise and upheaval that is drowning out the real conversation? \u003ci\u003eESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e will help you find answers to your questions, attract ESG-savvy talent and customers, and craft your own outstanding \"green ocean\" strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBusiness is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the \u003cb\u003eInsights You Need from Harvard Business Review\u003c\/b\u003e series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154211000497,"sku":"9781647826925","price":59.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154211033265,"sku":"9781647826901","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154211066033,"sku":"af0d9429-5d72-335c-80ec-32bd54cac122","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dd8e3e43-a41b-4471-8dd9-a8fdf6229a79.jpg?v=1763632575"},{"product_id":"the-business-cycle","title":"The Business Cycle: Growth and Crisis under Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre the recurring recessions of the capitalist world merely short-term adjustments to changing economic circumstances in a system that tends, in general, toward equilibrium? In this accessible study of the business cycle, Howard Sherman makes a powerful case that recessions and painful involuntary unemployment are endogenous to capitalism. Drawing especially on the work of Wesley Clair Mitchell, Karl Marx, and John M. Keynes, Sherman explains why the nature of the business cycle produces serious economic loss and misery during its contraction phase, just as it produces growth in its expansion phase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154090741937,"sku":"9780691635767","price":304.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154090774705,"sku":"9780691607146","price":125.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4dd117df-3af2-423b-ae27-04cec8616ab7.jpg?v=1763714733"},{"product_id":"essays-on-the-intellectual-history-of-economics","title":"Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eRanking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985) remarked that Viner was \"quite simply the greatest historian of economic thought that ever lived.\" Never before, however, have Viner's important contributions to the intellectual history of economics been collected into one convenient volume. This book performs this valuable service to scholarship by reprinting Viner's classic essays on such topics as Adam Smith and laissez-faire, the intellectual history of laissez-faire, and power versus plenty as an objective of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included are Viner's penetrating and previously unpublished Wabash College lectures. \"Jacob Viner was one of the truly great economists of this century as both teacher and scholar. This collection ... covers a wide range with special emphasis on the history of thought. Today's economists will find [the essays] just as thought-provoking and as illuminating as did his contemporaries. They have aged very well indeed.\"--Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution \"Jacob Viner was a great and original economic theorist. What is rarer, Viner was a learned scholar. What is still rarer, Viner was a wise scientist. This new anthology of his writings on intellectual history is worth having in every economist's library--to sample at intervals over the years in the reasoned hope that Viner's wisdom will rub off on the reader and for the pleasure of his writing.\"--Paul A. Samuelson, MIT \"I am frankly jealous of those who will be reading Viner's essays for the first time, marvelling at his learning, amused by his dry wit, instructed by his wisdom. But although I cannot share their joy of discovery, I shall be able to savor the subtleties that emerge from rereading these splendid essays.\"--George J. Stigler, University of Chicago \"This volume will be a treat for the reader who appreciates scholarship, felicitous use of language, and the workings of a great mind. The Wabash lectures are gems, and the introduction by Douglas Irwin contributes significantly to our understanding of Viner's accomplishments.\"--William J. Baumol, Princeton University\/New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154090021041,"sku":"9780691630656","price":264.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154090053809,"sku":"9780691600833","price":104.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7c8c6247-278e-4908-92bc-ba2374f6fdc1.jpg?v=1764378697"},{"product_id":"intellectual-capital-in-german-non-profit-organisations","title":"Intellectual Capital in German Non-profit Organisations: An Empirical Study","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book describes how non-profit organisations (NPOs) communicate what they constitute, signal success and display sustainability in order to convince stakeholders to provide essential resources. Reports on intellectual capital offer a worthwhile approach. Based on empirical research, the book highlights the essential resources for NPOs and on the demand imposed on organisations, as well as the dependencies of those resources and demands. This insight helps NPOs to provide necessary information while keeping the disclosure to a minimum and thus not giving away possible competitive advantages. Further, the status-quo of IC disclosure in Germany is presented and a theoretical framework for the motivation for NPOs to disclose information on their IC is presented. Researchers will find these findings a solid foundation for further research. Finally, a framework for the disclosure of intellectual capital is provided to support practitioners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154117251249,"sku":"9783319873640","price":160.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154117284017,"sku":"9783319626543","price":160.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154117316785,"sku":"6cefe45c-3808-3b31-9164-30dad8490ead","price":116.09,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_06e83c29-e60c-467a-a059-199289f3194c.jpg?v=1763436304"},{"product_id":"social-security-programs-and-retirement-around-the-world","title":"Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Effects of Reforms on Retirement Behavior","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA global analysis of the effects of social security reforms on the retirement incentives and labor force trends of older workers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Employment among older men and women has increased dramatically in recent years, reversing a downward trend in the closing decades of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eSocial Security Programs and Retirement around the World \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how changing retirement incentives have reshaped labor force participation trends among older workers. The chapters feature country-specific analyses for Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They find that while there is significant heterogeneity across countries, the reforms of recent decades have generally reduced the implicit tax on work at older ages. These changes correlate positively with labor force participation. The studies exploit the variation in the timing and extent of reforms of retirement incentives and employ microeconometric methods to investigate whether this correlation reflects a causal relationship. Policy changes appear to have contributed to rising labor force activity, but other factors like the role of women in the labor force, improved health, and changes in private pensions likely also play important roles. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154235969713,"sku":"9780226836355","price":182.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46838586867922,"sku":"8356ed91-d702-381d-ac6e-bf86b1367963","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d8fa92d4-a13e-4afd-b632-63381df5f7fb.jpg?v=1763340681"},{"product_id":"the-economic-history-of-american-inequality","title":"The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meticulous examination of the history and roots of economic inequality within the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic inequality manifests itself on various dimensions, including access to resources and economic security, as well as access to education and opportunities for migration, marriage, and other important life decisions. Measuring inequality and studying its variation over time and in response to economic shocks such as recessions and wars deepen our understanding of how the economy operates and can inform the design of public policies. The studies in this compendium present comprehensive evidence on income distribution during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on new data on wages and prices. They also consider disparities in economic well-being that are reflected in outcomes other than wage and salary income, such as homeownership and marriage. The volume also presents new evidence on the effects of income inequality on social outcomes. It concludes with an intellectual history of “human capital,” a core concept in the economic analysis of the underpinnings of labor market inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154237640881,"sku":"9780226840642","price":195.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46838582411474,"sku":"aed384f6-f000-3530-a55a-0d8ff21988e5","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_bc4f8d72-9591-42c6-a14b-2060464da0a8.jpg?v=1763340679"},{"product_id":"lochner-v-new-york","title":"Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLochner v. New York\u003c\/i\u003e (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Supreme Court’s decision declared unconstitutional a New York State law limiting bakery workers to no more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. By evoking its “police power,” the state hoped to eliminate the employers' abuse of these workers. But the 5-4 majority opinion, authored by Justice Rufus Peckham and renounced by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, cited the state’s violation of due process and the “right of contract between employers and employees,” which the majority believed was protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics jumped on the decision as an example of conservative judicial activism promoting laissez-faire capitalism at the expense of progressive reform. As series editors Peter Hoffer and N.E.H. Hull note in their preface, “the case also raised a host of significant questions regarding the impetus of state legislatures to enter the workplace and regulate hours, wages, and working conditions; of the role of courts as monitors of the constitutionality of state regulation of the economy; and of the place of economic and moral theories in judicial thinking.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKens, however, reminds us that these hotly contested ideas and principles emerged from a very real human drama involving workers, owners, legislators, lawyers, and judges. Within the crucible of an industrializing America, their story reflected the fierce competition between two powerful ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154068197553,"sku":"9780700609192","price":40.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154068230321,"sku":"a48b33de-4a6f-3981-a799-548bb64eabd0","price":33.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7d42dad7-c474-4936-aed7-c92f6c825b9b.jpg?v=1764404620"},{"product_id":"economic-integration","title":"Economic Integration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe problem of economic integration is treated from a purely theoretical standpoint in a manner which far exceeds in thoroughness any prior attempt to deal with this problem in a similar fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1961.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155293753521,"sku":"9780691652030","price":179.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155293786289,"sku":"9780691625591","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e5bcd252-32a9-4d1f-aefe-e99bec098361.jpg?v=1764388680"},{"product_id":"history-of-marginal-utility-theory","title":"History of Marginal Utility Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author blends historical narrative with a topical approach and discusses such aspects of the theory as measurement, total value, and imputation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1965.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155290706097,"sku":"9780691650944","price":169.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155290738865,"sku":"9780691624341","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3b1d6a40-d872-419c-bf76-36cef2dabcb1.jpg?v=1764390208"},{"product_id":"the-china-business-conundrum","title":"The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That \"Win-Win\" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing account of the struggles and surprises when forming a financial joint venture with China\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe China Business Conundrum: Ensure That \"Win-Win\" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice\u003c\/i\u003e describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years “on the ground” trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund local innovation design—and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to systematically sabotage the project and steal SVB's business model. This book provides actionable advice drawn from meticulous notes Wilcox took from interviews with people from all walks of Chinese life, including Party and non-Party members, the business elite, and domestic workers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribing a China he found fascinating and maddeningly complex, this book explores topics including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDifficulties in transplanting SVB's model to China, from misunderstandings about titles and responsibilities to pitched battles over toilet design\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEthics and practices widely adopted by Chinese businesses today and why China must be met with realistic expectations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWilcox's own honest missteps and the painfully learned lessons that came afterwards\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngrossing, enlightening, and entertaining, \u003ci\u003eThe China Business Conundrum: Ensure That \"Win-Win\" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential cautionary tale and guidebook for all Western bankers, C-suite executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs seeking to do business within China.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155174150321,"sku":"9781394294169","price":33.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46155174183089,"sku":"0ca289d6-d15d-3eda-bb08-edfd5be816d9","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6797dc14-1b03-43a2-bdfe-54419e4f1754.jpg?v=1763310939"},{"product_id":"organized-business-in-france","title":"Organized Business in France","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is widely admitted that organized economic interests determine political decision making at many levels of the French political process. This first comprehensive description of the French employers' and trade association movement shows how these pressure groups operate and indicates the extent of their influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1957.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155460313265,"sku":"9780691652849","price":345.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155460346033,"sku":"9780691626604","price":129.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1f7edba0-cf40-4e88-aefb-ae603afb514d.jpg?v=1763718209"},{"product_id":"solomons-knot","title":"Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy law is critical to innovation and economic growth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. The innovator must trust the investor with his idea and the investor must trust the innovator with her money. Robert Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer call this the \"double trust dilemma of development.\" Nowhere is this problem more acute than in poorer nations, where the failure to solve it results in stagnant economies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSolomon's Knot\u003c\/i\u003e, Cooter and Schäfer propose a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. They also demonstrate why ineffective private and business laws are the root cause of the poverty of nations in today's world. Without the legal institutions that allow innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive, other attempts to spur economic growth are destined to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (2013)","offer_id":46155317805233,"sku":"9780691159713","price":44.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2011 A)","offer_id":46155317838001,"sku":"78ddb025-b29b-4d90-a2e5-b792874258ae","price":59.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2012)","offer_id":46716727754962,"sku":"9781421407746","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2011 B)","offer_id":46716727787730,"sku":"bedf978f-d764-3640-8bd9-2106735f1c10","price":31.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_189ef911-e7de-49b1-ac12-9db1db69bf9a.jpg?v=1764393585"},{"product_id":"trends-in-government-financing","title":"Trends in Government Financing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author indicates that war expenditures have been the most important single cause of the increase in the federal debt, with government countercyclical expenditures second. Increase in state and local debts is found to be largely due to the technological revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1961.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155460968625,"sku":"9780691652221","price":149.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2015)","offer_id":46155461001393,"sku":"9780691625874","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (1994)","offer_id":46716801056978,"sku":"9780671797300","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_79275324-6079-47a0-b599-848b9dbd1d3f.jpg?v=1763683870"},{"product_id":"an-economic-spurt-that-failed","title":"An Economic Spurt that Failed: Four Lectures in Austrian History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1900 the newly appointed Austrian prime minister, Ernest von Koerber, initiated a novel program of economic development designed to solve the political and economic problems of the Habsburg Monarchy. Ambitious and ingenious as the plan was, it proved a failure, and in this book Alexander Gerschenkron assesses its career and significance for both Austrian and European history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author explains the importance of Koerber's experiment as a way of increasing Austria's economic strength while drawing the country out of divisive political struggles. He ascribes its failure primarily to the obstructionist tactics of Eugen von Boehin-Bawerk, the famous economist, who headed the Austrian Ministry of Finance. In describing the experiment's brief but striking success, Professor Gerschenkron challenges the widespread belief among scholars that disintegrating nationalist forces were irresistible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155364892849,"sku":"9780691643847","price":130.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155364925617,"sku":"9780691616582","price":56.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_9514b457-470d-482d-89ae-c45c6892bcf6.jpg?v=1763683874"},{"product_id":"manufacturing-miracles","title":"Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s, or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s, would have predicted that these nations would become economic \"miracles\" several decades later. These newly industrializing countries (NICs) challenge much of our conventional wisdom about economic development and raise important questions about international competitiveness and export success in manufacturing industries. In this volume economists, sociologists, and political scientists seek to explain the growth of the NICs in Latin America and East Asia and to reformulate contemporary development theory through an in-depth analysis of these two dynamic regions. Gary Gereffi and Colin I. Bradford, Jr., provide an overview of national development trajectories in Latin America and East Asia, while Barbara Stallings, Gereffi, Robert R. Kaufman, Tun-jen Cheng, and Frederic C. Deyo discuss the role of foreign capital, governments, and domestic coalitions in shaping development outcomes. Gustav Ranis, Robert Wade, Chi Schive, and Ren Villarreal look at the impact of economic policies on industrial performance, and Fernando Fajnzylber, Ronald Dore, and Christopher Ellison with Gereffi examine new agendas for comparative development research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155340611761,"sku":"9780691635446","price":277.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155340644529,"sku":"9780691606743","price":115.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_083d8ecf-13a8-48ab-b181-2de4e1b45bbd.jpg?v=1763679150"},{"product_id":"landlords-and-capitalists","title":"Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in \u003ci\u003eThe American Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, criticizing managerial theory and evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property, and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power, no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic, and political--within an actually existing dominant class. Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about how \"economic classes\" become \"social classes\" and how the latter in turn connect with other social forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a sustained empirical analysis of Chile's dominant class. But it does more than reveal that class's specific internal structure; it also provides a coherent theory of the inner relations constituting any dominant class in a highly concentrated capitalist economy, a methodological paradigm, and an exemplary body of findings, which can closely guide the study of other dominant classes, especially in the \"advanced\" societies of the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155336482993,"sku":"9780691634005","price":210.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155336515761,"sku":"9780691605005","price":83.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e4264af7-ee4b-4e01-9444-273bfc4c7a03.jpg?v=1763714296"},{"product_id":"economic-stabilization","title":"Economic Stabilization: Objective, Rules, and Mechanisms","description":"\u003cp\u003eA theoretical discussion of the problem of achieving economic stabilization. Mr. Egle offers a commonsense compromise between those who would use only automatic devices to counteract business swings and those who would give the government great discretionary powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1952.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155390484657,"sku":"9780691653334","price":179.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155390517425,"sku":"9780691627281","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b794ec63-44d4-4be7-9196-082a5d27a0b4.jpg?v=1763718209"},{"product_id":"crise-et-renovation-de-la-finance","title":"Crise et rénovation de la finance","description":"Un diagnostic de la crise économique actuelle et des propositions pour en sortir. L'argument tourne autour d'une idée : l'économie ne doit plus être pilotée à court mais à long terme. D'une part les investisseurs de long terme (Caisse des dépôts, fonds souverains) doivent prendre les commandes financières de l'économie, et d'autre part la stratégie d'entreprise doit viser le développement durable.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155044356273,"sku":"9782738122483","price":54.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46155044389041,"sku":"7e5403e9-2559-326d-a53a-9c0f388be3ca","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e0204270-5e5d-48cb-9433-5efc3252b9be.jpg?v=1763108085"},{"product_id":"maintaining-and-restoring-balance-in-international-trade","title":"Maintaining and Restoring Balance in International Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourteen leading economists analyze the problem of imbalance in international payments and suggest corrective measures. Three general appraisals by William Fellner, Fritz Machlup, and Robert Triffin are followed by shorter technical papers on special issues by Fellner, Gottfried Haberler, Sir Roy Harrod, Harry G. Johnson, Peter B. Kenen, Alexandre Lamfalussy, Friedrich A. Lutz, Machlup, Jürg Niehans, Walters S. Salant, Tibor Scitovsky, James Tobin, Triffin, and Robert L. West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1966.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155458052273,"sku":"9780691650470","price":169.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155458085041,"sku":"9780691623856","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b9dfefb1-4923-42c0-b534-495c8fb04d92.jpg?v=1764388093"},{"product_id":"the-defense-of-community-in-perus-central-highlands","title":"The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks, and the communality inspired by economic insecurity have sometimes obscured this division.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1983.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155351752881,"sku":"9780691640990","price":257.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155351785649,"sku":"9780691613123","price":104.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_26fc0594-e0f4-4436-8495-e9cc4d92c228.jpg?v=1764377983"},{"product_id":"strapped","title":"Strapped: Why America's 20- And 30-somethings Can't Get Ahead","description":"Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it. \u003ci\u003eStrapped\u003c\/i\u003e offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course facing young adults. Getting ahead, argues commentator and policy maven Tamara Draut,  is getting harder. A college degree is the new high school diploma–and costs a fortune to obtain. Good jobs are scarcer thanks to stagnant wages and disappearing benefits. And, the cost of everything–starter homes, health coverage, child care–keeps going up. Witty and wise, \u003ci\u003eStrapped \u003c\/i\u003ebrims with ideas for fashioning a new kind of America in which every young person can go to college, buy a home, and start a family. The future starts here.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155235295409,"sku":"9781400079971","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46155235328177,"sku":"6c73f9e8-1cc9-429f-8256-693005334f61","price":6.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1346ecdf-e9b5-4885-9d28-f510506c266c.jpg?v=1764376375"},{"product_id":"manpower-planning-in-a-free-society","title":"Manpower Planning in a Free Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eContents: Foreword. Preface. 1. An Approach to Manpower Problems. 2. Manpower Planning and the Market. 3. A New Concept of the Employment Service. 4. Organization and Staff for an Effective Service. 5. Planning on the Demand Side. 6. Planning Adjustments in Supply. 7. The Economics of Manpower Planning. 8. The Contribution of Research. 9. Conclusion. Appendix. Index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1966.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155373052081,"sku":"9780691646800","price":156.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155373084849,"sku":"9780691619958","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7779ea22-639e-4edc-98e7-96d2cf7d0763.jpg?v=1763683874"},{"product_id":"before-the-computer","title":"Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore the Computer\u003c\/i\u003e fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the \"office appliance industry,\" he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American economy that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators. He also describes how many of the practices of the office appliance industry evolved into those of the computer world. Drawing on previously unavailable industry archives, the author adds to our understanding of IBM's early history and offers short corporate histories of firms that include NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand. Focusing on the United States but also including comparative material on Europe and Asia, Before the Computer will be a unique source of knowledge about the companies that built office equipment and their enormous impact on economic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1993.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155400577201,"sku":"9780691630083","price":250.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46703097708754,"sku":"9780691600109","price":102.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b40b6244-a52a-4968-a273-5bf97253ab05.jpg?v=1764382019"},{"product_id":"essays-on-a-mature-economy","title":"Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebating the promises and limits of the \"new economic history,\" seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new methodological challenge to the field of economic history and a new interpretation of the British economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1972.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155446976689,"sku":"9780691646909","price":277.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (1979)","offer_id":46155447009457,"sku":"9780520038769","price":45.77,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2015)","offer_id":46155447042225,"sku":"9780691620060","price":115.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f5e35142-fcc2-46d8-ab51-c0e20b98bf20.jpg?v=1763717754"},{"product_id":"credit-between-cultures","title":"Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, And Misunderstanding In Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eParker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural,  economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155223367857,"sku":"9780300181289","price":63.42,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dd7955c2-e200-45e1-8fbb-f4327bd31c0e.jpg?v=1763310934"},{"product_id":"the-big-problem-of-small-change","title":"The Big Problem of Small Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Problem of Small Change\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading economists, Thomas Sargent and François Velde, examine the evolution of Western European economies through the lens of one of the classic problems of monetary history--the recurring scarcity and depreciation of small change. Through penetrating and clearly worded analysis, they tell the story of how monetary technologies, doctrines, and practices evolved from 1300 to 1850; of how the \"standard formula\" was devised to address an age-old dilemma without causing inflation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One big problem had long plagued commodity money (that is, money literally worth its weight in gold): governments were hard-pressed to provide a steady supply of small change because of its high costs of production. The ensuing shortages hampered trade and, paradoxically, resulted in inflation and depreciation of small change. After centuries of technological progress that limited counterfeiting, in the nineteenth century governments replaced the small change in use until then with fiat money (money not literally equal to the value claimed for it)--ensuring a secure flow of small change. But this was not all. By solving this problem, suggest Sargent and Velde, modern European states laid the intellectual and practical basis for the diverse forms of money that make the world go round today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This keenly argued, richly imaginative, and attractively illustrated study presents a comprehensive history and theory of small change. The authors skillfully convey the intuition that underlies their rigorous analysis. All those intrigued by monetary history will recognize this book for the standard that it is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155310432433,"sku":"9780691116358","price":83.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46155310465201,"sku":"8d02d2db-f92a-312d-a814-3aff7d776548","price":66.29,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3d92a7c3-8460-4f4b-83d2-6e3ecab4f6c0.jpg?v=1763635930"},{"product_id":"the-lords-of-easy-money","title":"The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in 2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut here, for the first time, is the inside story of how the Fed has reshaped the American economy for the worse. It all started on November 3, 2010, when the Fed began a radical intervention called quantitative easing. In just a few short years, the Fed more than quadrupled the money supply with one goal: to encourage banks and other investors to extend more risky debt. Leaders at the Fed knew that they were undertaking a bold experiment that would produce few real jobs, with long-term risks that were hard to measure. But the Fed proceeded anyway…and then found itself trapped. Once it printed all that money, there was no way to withdraw it from circulation. The Fed tried several times, only to see the market start to crash, at which point the Fed turned the money spigot back on. That’s what it did when COVID hit, printing 300 years’ worth of money in a few short months. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhich brings us to now: Ten years on, the gap between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, inflation is raging, and the stock market is driven by boom, busts, and bailouts. Middle-class Americans seem stuck in a stage of permanent stagnation, with wage gains wiped out by high prices even as they remain buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt. Meanwhile, the “too big to fail” banks remain bigger and more powerful than ever while the richest Americans enjoy the gains of a hyper-charged financial system. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lords of Easy Money \u003c\/i\u003e“skillfully” (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) tells the “fascinating” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) tale of how quantitative easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the one man who tried to warn us. This is the first inside story of how we really got here—and why our economy rests on such unstable ground.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154884186289,"sku":"9781982166649","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154884219057,"sku":"9781982166632","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154884251825,"sku":"44dde80e-0969-35a8-b25d-efab67e3945b","price":18.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_99c7a44d-442d-404b-bf24-7895a2e4ff38.jpg?v=1763713668"},{"product_id":"market-demand","title":"Market Demand: Theory and Empirical Evidence","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a major work that is the culmination of over a decade of intensive research, Werner Hildenbrand presents a new theory of market demand, the principal aim of which is to identify the conditions under which the Law of Demand holds true. Hildenbrand argues that the Law of Demand is due mainly to the \"heterogeneity\" of the population of households. In his view, \"rationality\" of individual behavior plays only a minor role. While the traditional approach to the theory of market demand is to analyze the question, To what extent are the postulated properties of individual behavior \u003ci\u003epreserved\u003c\/i\u003e by going from individual to market demand?, this book asks the question, Which properties of the market demand function are created by the aggregation process?.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo hypotheses on the population of households play a key role in Hilden-brand's thinking. The first is the \"increasing dispersion\" and the second the \"increasing spread\" of households' demand. These hypotheses can easily be interpreted and are a priori plausible. For a positive theory of market demand, according to Hildenbrand, it is more important that the hypotheses are well supported by empirical evidence. His claims in this important new book are based on a nonparametric statistical data analysis of the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey and the French Enquête Budget de Famille.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155338416305,"sku":"9780691634937","price":138.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155338449073,"sku":"9780691606095","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2d25e152-91e4-4e68-afb3-0040603ea0a7.jpg?v=1763714732"},{"product_id":"quiet-revolution-in-welfare-economics","title":"Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis ambitious work presents a critique of traditional welfare theory and proposes a new approach to it. Radical economists Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert argue that an improved theory of social welfare can consolidate and extend recent advances in microeconomic theory, and generate exciting new results as well. The authors show that once the traditional \"welfare paradigm\" is appropriately modified, a revitalized welfare theory can clarify the relationship between individual and social rationalitya task that continues to be of interest to mainstream and nonmainstream economists alike. Hahnel and Albert show how recent work in the theory of the labor process, externalities, public goods, and endogenous preferences can advance research in welfare theory. In a series of important theorems, the authors extend the concept of Pareto optimality to dynamic contexts with changing preferences and thus highlight the importance of institutional bias. This discussion provides the basis for further analysis of the properties and consequences of private and public enterprise and of markets and central planning. Not surprisingly, Hahnel and Albert reach a number of conclusions at odds with conventional wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155395334321,"sku":"9780691604510","price":117.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155395367089,"sku":"9780691629483","price":284.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7ebf40b8-3bc3-4e8a-80b9-fb65261c78ca.jpg?v=1764388156"},{"product_id":"inflation","title":"Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames reveal what is behind the inflationary storm that is wreaking havoc on American pocketbooks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It\u003c\/em\u003e explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.” Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInflation\u003c\/em\u003e answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, acclaimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors say that today’s problems can be solved by discarding longstanding beliefs that helped bring on the current crisis. They include the notion that central banks can create prosperity through artificially creating money “out of thin air,” and also that economic “stability” requires “a little inflation.” Such ideas for decades have been Holy Writ in official Washington. \u003cem\u003eInflation\u003c\/em\u003e shows why they are misguided. The book also explains why the current rage for heedless money-printing advocated by left-wing advocates of so-called Modern Monetary Theory is likely to lead the nation—and the world—down the road to disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked with examples from the headlines and from history \u003cem\u003eInflation\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique, real-world exploration of the subject that addresses everyday concerns of Americans under siege by rising prices, including steps you should take to protect your wealth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInflation\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for everyone seeking to navigate these tumultuous times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155159208113,"sku":"9781641773898","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155159240881,"sku":"9781641772433","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_ab2a14d1-cf9e-4321-85dd-cdcf19729f35.jpg?v=1763715250"},{"product_id":"production-theory-and-indivisible-commodities-psme-3-volume-3","title":"Production Theory and Indivisible Commodities. (PSME-3), Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number. The functions (or other types of mapping) with which the economist deals, such as production functions, demand curves, and cost functions are assumed to be defined for real number arrays and to behave properly with respect to various criteria of continuity. Assumptions of this sort imply an acceptance of commodity divisibility. However, it is possible that in many instances indivisible rather than divisible commodities are the more relevant factors. This book incorporates the notion of indivisibility in a limited way into an analysis of production and allocation in the belief that there is a large class of problems for which this type of analysis is relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46155383668913,"sku":"9780691648958","price":130.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46155383701681,"sku":"9780691622125","price":56.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e740f0a3-f6a0-4bfc-83d1-c973b9d537a8.jpg?v=1764388468"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/collections\/economics.oembed","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}