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Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. 2011 Level: advanced Modern Political Economics Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis Routledge Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. 2004 Level: advanced World-systems Analysis Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein Duke University Press The age of the contemplative economist-scholar—at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory—has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. InThe Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. 2002 Level: advanced The Future of the History of Economics Eliot Roy Weintraub Duke University Press Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. 2018 Level: advanced Uncertain Futures Beckert, Jens; Bronk, Richard Oxford University Press Despite the Doha declaration of November 2001, the failure to start a new round of global trade negotiations at Seattle in December 1999 and the hostility of protesters to the trade liberalization process and growing global economic and social disparities was a wake-up call for the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 2002 Level: advanced The WTO, Agriculture and Sustainable Development Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler Greenleaf Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic interactions. 2017 Level: beginner Understanding Capitalism Samuel Bowles, Frank Roosevelt, Richard Edwards, and Mehrene Larudee Oxford University Press For intermediate courses in economics. A Unified View of the Latest Macroeconomic Events Macroeconomics, Blanchard presents a unified, global view of macroeconomics, enabling readers to see the connections between goods, financial markets, and labor markets worldwide. 2017 Level: advanced Macroeconomics Olivier J. Blanchard, David R. Johnson Pearson The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. 2011 Level: advanced Handbook on the Economics of Conflict Braddon, Derek L.; Hartley, Keith Edward Elgar Publishing Are there distinct European traditions in economics? Is modern economics homogenous and American? The volume includes case studies of the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece. 2005 Level: advanced The Development of Economics in Western Europe Since 1945 Coats, A.W. Routledge This lively introduction to heterodox economics provides a balanced critique of the standard introductory macroeconomic curriculum. In clear and accessible prose, it explains many of the key principles that underlie a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives (including institutionalist economics, radical economics, Post Keynesian economics, feminist economics, ecological economics, Marxist economics, social economics, and socioeconomics). 2015 Level: beginner Reintroducing Macroeconomics Cohn, Steve Routledge The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of macroeconomics, fundamentally international in its approach and emphasizing current debates and research trends. 2014 Level: advanced Macroeconomics Dorman, Peter Springer-Verlag Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. 2009 Level: advanced Heterodox Macroeconomics Goldstein, Jonathan P.; Hillard, Michael G Routledge In a changing world that has been shaken by economic, social, financial, and ecological crises, it becomes increasingly clear that new approaches to economics are needed for both theoretical and empirical research; for applied economics as well as policy advice. 2018 Level: advanced Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Claudius Grabner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt Routledge This book presents a methodological framework for the analysis of intercultural issues frequently misinterpreted by existing theories. It uses a challenge-and-response theory of cultural development to examine the relationship between different natural disasters and threats and the developments of ancient civilizations. 2012 Level: beginner Introduction to Intercultural Economics Guo, Rongxing Springer Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. 2013 Level: advanced Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition Paul Hare, Gerard Turley Routledge This book argues that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with environmental problems and sustainable development. Each chapter provides major insights into many of today’s environmental problems such as global warming and sustainable growth. 2009 Level: advanced Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics Richard P. F. Holt, Steven Pressman, Clive L. Spash Edward Elgar Publishing The new edition of this classroom classic retains the organizing theme of the original text, presenting the development of thought within the context of economic history. 2015 Level: advanced History of Economic Thought E. K. Hunt, Mark Lautzenheiser Routledge This book contends that post Keynesian economics has its own methodological and didactic basis, and its realistic analysis is much-needed in the current economic and financial crisis. 2013 Level: beginner Teaching Post Keynesian Economics Jespersen, Jesper; Madsen, Mogens Ove Edward Elgar Publishing Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics challenge the mainstream economics theories that dominate the teaching at universities and government economic policies. And it was these latter theories that helped to cause the great depression the United States and the rest of the world is in. 2012 Level: advanced In Defense of Post-Keynesian and Heterodox Economics Lee, Frederic S.; Lavoie, Marc Routledge The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE). 2018 Level: advanced International Political Economy Miller, Raymond C. Routledge This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct methodological standards. 2016 Level: advanced A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond Vroey, Michel de Cambridge University Press In a challenge to conventional views on modern monetary and fiscal policy, this book presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest. 2015 Level: advanced Modern Money Theory Wray, L. Randall Palgrave Macmillan Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. 2016 Level: beginner Microeconomics - A Critical Companion Ben Fine Pluto Press Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. 2016 Level: beginner Macroeconomics - A Critical Companion Ben Fine Pluto Press Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of the 1990s giving rise to real social outcry to the extent that they became the object of central government policy reformulations. 2015 Level: advanced Social Economy in China and the World Ngai Pun, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Hairong Yan, Anita Koo Taylor & Francis Ltd Readers of economic and political theory as well as students of economic planning will appreciate this classic, now available for the first time in English. Written eighty years ago, when Sorel became disillusioned with the official socialism of the German and French Marxist parties, this new translation presents Sorel's analysis of the rise and fall of the two great modern ideologies: socialism and liberal capitalism. 2017 Level: advanced Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics Georges Sorel Routledge This classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. 2015 Level: advanced Economics Howard J Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold F. Nesiba, Phillip O'Hara, Barbara A. Wiens-Tuers Routledge Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. 2004 Level: beginner Field Experiments in Economics Harrison, Glenn W.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; List, John A. Emerald Group Why do we think that sovereign debt must be repaid--even after a major regime change--in order to maintain country creditworthiness? In a fascinating and highly original book, Odette Lienau argues that this conventional wisdom is overly simplistic and in some respects entirely wrong. 2014 Level: beginner Rethinking Sovereign Debt Lienau, Odette Harvard University Press In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. 2001 Level: advanced The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi Beacon Press Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. 2020 Level: advanced Planetary Mine Martín Arboleda Verso Books This book analyzes the transition of chocolate from an exotic curiosity to an Atlantic commodity. It shows how local, inter-regional, and Atlantic markets interacted with one another and with imperial political economies. It explains how these interactions, intertwined with the resilience of local artisanal production, promoted the partial democratization of chocolate consumption as well as economic growth. 2020 Level: advanced Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World Irene Fattacciu Routledge

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