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Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. 2018 Level: advanced Capitalism Anwar Shaikh Oxford University Press Principles of Macroeconomics by Howard J. Sherman and Michael A. Meeropol differs from other texts in that this book stresses far more the inherent instability of the macro-economy. 2013 Level: advanced Principles of Macroeconomics Howard J. Sherman, Michael Meeropol M.E. Sharpe Diane Perrons and Sigrid Stagl combine feminist and critical environmental economics perspectives to develop a critique of the free market growth model and offer new ideas for a more sustainable gender equitable model of development in the interests of all. 2019 Level: advanced A Feminist Political Economy for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society Diane Perrons, Sigrid (Vienna University for Economics and Business) Stagl Agenda Publishing The Revolution in Corporate Finance has established itself as a key text for students of corporate finance with wide use on a range of courses. Using seminal articles from the highly regarded Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, it gives students real insight into the practical implications of the most recent theoretical advances in the field. 2003 Level: advanced The Revolution in Corporate Finance Joel M. Stern, Donald Chew Jr, Jr. Wiley 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 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 This book tells the story of the search for disequilibrium micro-foundations for macroeconomic theory, from the disequilibrium theories of Patinkin, Clower and Leijonhufvud to recent dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with imperfect competition. 2014 Level: expert Transforming Modern Macroeconomics Backhouse, Roger; Boianovsky, Mauro Cambridge University Press Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking. 2017 Level: advanced The Blockchain Alternative Bheemaiah, Kariappa Apress 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 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 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 represents a new foundation for the study of microeconomics, viewed from a broad perspective that takes into account new developments at the intersections with psychology, political science, the natural sciences and philosophy. 2014 Level: beginner Microeconomics. A fresh start Dorman, Peter Springer VS 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 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 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 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 Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. 2020 Level: advanced From Here to Equality William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen The University of North Carolina Press In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that. 2004 Level: advanced Postcolonialism Meets Economics S. Charusheela, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Psychology Press A comprehensive textbook on contemporary Global Political Economy and its historical evolution providing a broad-ranging and even-handed introduction to the subject by covering traditional elements (such as trade and finance) while also analysing issues such as gender, environment and labour. 2020 Level: advanced Global Political Economy Robert O'Brien & Marc Williams Red Globe Press Latin America and Europe can both learn from their respective experiences on crisis response and the distributive and democratic implications at national and regional level Democratic and distributive aspects of crisis response monetary financial economic policies and institutional reforms are key but have not been adequately addressed in the literature … 2020 Level: advanced Financial Crisis Management and Democracy Bettina De Souza Guilherme, Christian Ghymers, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann Springer Nature This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value. 2015 Level: beginner Introducing a New Economics Jack Reardon, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, and Molly Scott Cato Pluto Press One of the most authoritative authors on the intellectual heritage of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky draws a sketch of the great man's economic thinking both accessible and insightful. 2010 Level: beginner Keynes: A Very Short Introduction Robert Skidelsky Oxford University Press Homo sapiens is now evolving into post economy The New Economy must manage scarcity and affluence a dual problem that is not integrated into the main classical economic theories There will be an important shock between opulence described by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society and scarcity … 2017 Level: beginner Shifting Economy Emmanuel Mossay, Michel de Kemmeter Wise Holding - Otherways scrl

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