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Paper Dragons(2021) BELLO, WALDEN (BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY, USA)Walden Bello, one of the leading figures of the anti-globalisation movement, reveals how an impending financial crash in China may well bring the rest of world’s economy down with it.Vezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536(2019) STEVENS, MATTHEWThis book traces the developing economy of medieval Wales across roughly two hundred years of English conquest and colonization, and more than two centuries of post-conquest occupation, ending with the 1536 union of England and Wales. It details the growtVezava: Mehka41,57 € -
Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy(2020) COLLINS, GREGORY M. (YALE UNIVERSITY, CONNECTICUT)This book examines the economic thought of Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke's understanding of the relation between commerce and manners, it raises timely ethical questions about capitalism and its limits relevant to contemporary debates over neoliberalisVezava: Trda85,75 € -
Triumph of the South(2022) SCOTT, PETERThis book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and development of the North-South divide.Vezava: Mehka64,61 € -
Feeding the People(2020) EARLE, REBECCA (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today everyone eats them. This book traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. En route it helps explain why we feel so ambivalent about governmental dietary guidelines aVezava: Trda37,42 € -
Ship of Fools(2010) O'TOOLE, FINTANFor twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble. In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Secular Cycles(2009) TURCHIN, PETER,NEFEDOV, SERGEY A.Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is of interest to practitioners ofVezava: Trda81,81 € -
Unsustainable Inequalities(2020) CHANCEL, LUCASThe greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts how to share prosperity without furthering environmental harm, arVezava: Trda44,50 € -
Visualizing Taste(2019) HISANO, AIAi Hisano reveals how the food industry capitalized on color, fashioning a visual vocabulary that shapes what we think of the food we eat. Our perceptions of what food should look like have changed dramatically as scientists, farmers, food processors, regVezava: Trda60,42 € -
Time for Things(2021) ROSENBERG, DR STEPHEN D.Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and use the proceeds to buy, buy, buy. Why? Stephen Rosenberg offers a novel theory, arguing that workers have leaVezava: Trda73,75 €










