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The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugsby Merrill GooznerISBN 0520246705 (0-520-24670-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revisionby Donald WinchISBN 0521218276 (0-521-21827-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Businessby Michael L. GerlachISBN 0520076885 (0-520-07688-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Analytics of Uncertainty and Informationby Jack Hirshleifer, John G. RileyISBN 0521283698 (0-521-28369-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900by K. D. M. SnellISBN 0521245486 (0-521-24548-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Backby Jane Holtz KayISBN 0520216202 (0-520-21620-2)
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What makes Asphalt Nation far more interesting than the typical anti-auto diatribe is Kay's discussion of the cultural mores that helped create America's current car glut--namely, our attitudes toward land use and growth management; her comparisons between American and European practices in these areas are particularly interesting. Others have written about the American love affair with the automobile, but Holtz revisits the discussion with lively writing and a dramatic narrative. [via]
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Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in Americaby Dalton ConleyISBN 0520216733 (0-520-21673-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europeby T. H. Aston, C.H.E. PhilpinISBN 0521268176 (0-521-26817-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Bribesby John T. NoonanISBN 0520061543 (0-520-06154-3)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenmentby Alexander BroadieISBN 0521003237 (0-521-00323-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge-Eichborn German Dictionary: Economics, Law, Administration, Business, Generalby Reinhart von EichbornISBN 0521258464 (0-521-25846-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Chinese History in Economic Perspectiveby Thomas G. Rawski, Lillian M. LiISBN 0520070682 (0-520-07068-2)
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Classical Political Economy and British Policy in Indiaby S. AmbirajanISBN 0521214157 (0-521-21415-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350by Robert Sabatino LopezISBN 0521211115 (0-521-21111-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Contemporary Political Philosophyby Keith GrahamISBN 0521245516 (0-521-24551-6)
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Cross-Cultural Trade in World Historyby Philip D. CurtinISBN 0521269318 (0-521-26931-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Deep Politics and the Death of JFKby Peter Dale ScottISBN 0520205197 (0-520-20519-7)
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Discrete Choice Methods With Simulationby Kenneth TrainISBN 0521017157 (0-521-01715-7)
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The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United Statesby Jacob S. HackerISBN 0521013283 (0-521-01328-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Durable Inequalityby Charles TillyISBN 0520221702 (0-520-22170-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Economics and the Historianby Donald N. McCloskey, Hugh Rockoff, Peter H. Lindert, Jon S. Cohen, Stephen Cullenberg, Richard Sutch, Susan B. Carter, Thomas G. RawskiISBN 0520072685 (0-520-07268-5)
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Economics and the Historianby Thomas G. Rawski, Susan B. CarterISBN 0520072693 (0-520-07269-3)
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Economics for Pleasureby George Lennox Sharman ShackleISBN 0521062829 (0-521-06282-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe 1300-1460by Harry A. MiskiminISBN 0521210178 (0-521-21017-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Ageby Simon SchamaISBN 0520061470 (0-520-06147-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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English Culture And the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850v1980by Martin J. WienerISBN 0521270340 (0-521-27034-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Centuryby Remy Gilbert SaisselinISBN 0520072952 (0-520-07295-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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This persuasive discourse depicts the rise of luxe as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury, and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation. Saisselin provides an original and lucid picture of the first phases in the emergence of a specifically bourgeois taste.More editions of The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century:
Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolisby Michael BurawoyISBN 0520073223 (0-520-07322-3)
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Evolution of Sickness and Healingby Horacio FabregaISBN 0520206096 (0-520-20609-6)
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Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Javaby Diane Lauren WolfISBN 0520086570 (0-520-08657-0)
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Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluenceby Katherine S. NewmanISBN 0520218426 (0-520-21842-6)
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The First Industrial Revolutionby P. M. DeaneISBN 0521093635 (0-521-09363-5)
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France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Centuryby Whitney WaltonISBN 0520076923 (0-520-07692-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern Worldby Michael BurawoyISBN 0520222164 (0-520-22216-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Growth Profits & Propertyby Edward J. NellISBN 0521223962 (0-521-22396-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhoodby Kathleen GersonISBN 0520057457 (0-520-05745-7)
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Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movementby Rick Fantasia, Kim VossISBN 0520240901 (0-520-24090-1)
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Hard Work begins with a comparison of the very different conditions that prevail for labor in the United States and in Europe. What emerges is a picture of an American labor movement forced to operate on terrain shaped by powerful corporations, a weak state, and an inhospitable judicial system. What also emerges is a picture of an American worker that has virtually disappeared from the American social imagination. Recently, however, the authors find that a new kind of unionism--one that more closely resembles a social movement--has begun to develop from the shell of the old labor movement. Looking at the cities of Los Angeles and Las Vegas they point to new practices that are being developed by innovative unions to fight corporate domination, practices that may well signal a revival of unionism and the emergence of a new social imagination in the United States.More editions of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement:
Historical Economics: Art or Science?by Charles P. KindlebergerISBN 0520073436 (0-520-07343-6)
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A History of Thailandby Chris Baker, Pasuk PhongpaichitISBN 0521016479 (0-521-01647-9)
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In Defense of Anarchismby Robert Paul WolffISBN 0520215737 (0-520-21573-7)
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrioby Philippe BourgoisISBN 0521017114 (0-521-01711-4)
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Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Givingby Annette B. WeinerISBN 0520076044 (0-520-07604-4)
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The idea of keeping-while-giving places women at the heart of the political process, however much that process may vary in different societies, for women possess a wealth of their own that gives them power. Power is intimately involved in cultural reproduction, and Weiner describes the location of power in each society, showing how the degree of control over the production and distribution of cloth wealth coincides with women's rank and the development of hierarchy in the community. Other inalienable possessions, whether material objects, landed property, ancestral myths, or sacred knowledge, bestow social identity and rank as well. Calling attention to their presence in Western history, Weiner points out that her formulations are not limited to Oceania. The paradox of keeping-while-giving is a concept certain to influence future developments in ethnography and the theoretical study of gender and exchange.More editions of Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving:
Inside the Black Boxby Nathan RosenbergISBN 0521273676 (0-521-27367-6)
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The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global Cityby Ara WilsonISBN 0520239687 (0-520-23968-7)
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The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets--department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon--Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from "tomboys" to corporate tycoons to sex workers.
Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy.More editions of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City:
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Judgment Under Uncertaintyby D. KahnemanISBN 0521284147 (0-521-28414-7)
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics And Biasesby Paul Slovic, Daniel KahnemanISBN 0521240646 (0-521-24064-6)
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The Limits of State Actionby Wilhelm Humboldt, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), J.W. BurrowISBN 0521076560 (0-521-07656-0)
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Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainabilityby Peter B. EvansISBN 0520230256 (0-520-23025-6)
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
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The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780by Margaret R. HuntISBN 0520202600 (0-520-20260-0)
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The Modern Middle East: A Readerby Albert Hourani, Philip S. Khoury, Mary C. WilsonISBN 0520082419 (0-520-08241-9)
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issuesby Joel BestISBN 0520238303 (0-520-23830-3)
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Of Rule and Revenueby Margaret LeviISBN 0520067509 (0-520-06750-9)
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Oligopoly Theoryby James W. FriedmanISBN 0521282446 (0-521-28244-6)
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The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Centuryby Daniel ChirotISBN 0520076400 (0-520-07640-0)
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Political Economy of West African Agricultureby Keith HartISBN 0521284236 (0-521-28423-6)
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Politics in the Ancient Worldby Moses I. FinleyISBN 0521275709 (0-521-27570-9)
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The Price Indexby S.N. AfriatISBN 0521216656 (0-521-21665-6)
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Production of Commodities by Means of Commoditiesby Perio SraffaISBN 0521099692 (0-521-09969-2)
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Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations of Governmentby Arye L. HillmanISBN 0521001145 (0-521-00114-5)
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Renaissance Florenceby Gene BruckerISBN 0520049195 (0-520-04919-5)
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Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Ageby Andre Gunder FrankISBN 0520214749 (0-520-21474-9)
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Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929by Alan M. BallISBN 0520071743 (0-520-07174-3)
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Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970.by Michaß KaleckiISBN 0521079837 (0-521-07983-7)
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The Selling of Free Trade: Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracyby John R. MacArthurISBN 0520231783 (0-520-23178-3)
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Socialist Planningby Michael EllmanISBN 052122229X (0-521-22229-X)
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Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capitalby G.C. HarcourtISBN 0521096723 (0-521-09672-3)
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Soviet Economists of the Twenties: Names to Be Rememberedby Naum JasnyISBN 0521083028 (0-521-08302-8)
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Soviet Planning Today: Proposals for an Optimally Functioning Economic Systemby Michael EllmanISBN 0521081564 (0-521-08156-4)
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Spaces of Hopeby David HarveyISBN 0520225783 (0-520-22578-3)
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David Harvey brings an exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary social discourse: globalization and the body. Exploring the uneven geographical development of late-twentieth-century capitalism, and placing the working body in relation to this new geography, he finds in Marx's writings a wealth of relevant analysis and theoretical insight. In order to make much-needed changes, Harvey maintains, we need to become the architects of a different living and working environment and to learn to bridge the micro-scale of the body and the personal and the macro-scale of global political economy.
Utopian movements have for centuries tried to construct a just society. Harvey looks at their history to ask why they failed and what the ideas behind them might still have to offer. His devastating description of the existing urban environment (Baltimore is his case study) fuels his argument that we can and must use the force of utopian imagining against all who say "there is no alternative." He outlines a new kind of utopian thought, which he calls dialectical utopianism, and refocuses our attention on possible designs for a more equitable world of work and living with nature. If any political ideology or plan is to work, he argues, it must take account of our human qualities. Finally, Harvey dares to sketch a very personal utopian vision in an appendix, one that leaves no doubt about his own geography of hope.More editions of Spaces of Hope:
A Theory of Economic Growth: Dynamics and Policy in Overlapping Generationsby David De LA Croix, Philippe MichelISBN 0521001153 (0-521-00115-3)
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The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium: A Differentiable Approachby Andreu Mas-CollelISBN 0521265142 (0-521-26514-2)
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The Theory of Natural Monopolyby William S. SharkeyISBN 0521271940 (0-521-27194-0)
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Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationalityby Jon ElsterISBN 0521269849 (0-521-26984-9)
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Unemployment in the New Europeby Nancy BermeoISBN 0521002761 (0-521-00276-1)
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Unrewarding Wealth Commercialization and Collapse of Agriculture in a Spanish Bosqueby D. J. GreenwoodISBN 0521210216 (0-521-21021-6)
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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Placeby John R. Logan, Harvey L. MolotchISBN 0520063414 (0-520-06341-4)
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Value and Distribution in Capitalist Economies: An Introduction to Sraffian Economiesby Lynn MainwaringISBN 0521259045 (0-521-25904-5)
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Volkskapitalisme: Class, Capital, and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934-1948by Dan O'MearaISBN 0521242851 (0-521-24285-1)
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Welfare Economics and the Economics of Socialism: Towards a Commonsense Critiqueby Maurice Herbert DobbISBN 0521074622 (0-521-07462-2)
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Welfare Economics and the Elements of Socialismby Maurice DobbISBN 0521099374 (0-521-09937-4)
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The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700by David Harris SacksISBN 0520084497 (0-520-08449-7)
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Works and Correspondenceby David RicardoISBN 0521060664 (0-521-06066-4)
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