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  • HOW SOCIAL FORCES IMPACT THE ECONOMY
    STEVEN PRESSMAN
    Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies. However, this dimension is generally overlooked in mainstream economics. How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader conception of social economics provides for a better understanding of how economies work...

    $1,200.00

  • UNDERSTANDING PIKETTY'S CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    STEVEN PRESSMAN
    Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century reached the top of most best-seller lists last year shortly after it was released. Nonetheless, few people actually read the book. Yet reviewers have agreed that the book is important because it touches on one of the major problems facing the US economy, the UK economy and many developed nations: rising income and wealth ineq...

    $1,160.00

  • EMPIRICAL POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
    RICHARD P F HOLT / STEVEN PRESSMAN
    This text highlights the major empirical questions and issues facing Post Keynesian economics today. Featuring contributions by leading Post Keynesian economists, it focuses on public policy and real-life analysis of this vibrant and dynamic economic theory. In language that is accessible to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, professional economists, and public po...

    $1,420.00

  • 50 CHILDREN
    STEVEN PRESSMAN
    "A classic tale of American initiative . . . A rich and rewarding read. . . . paints a moving picture of the rescue" of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria ( Wall Street Journal). In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United States. As deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped muc...

    $229.00

  • THE LEGACY OF JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
    PRESSMAN, STEVEN
    When John Kenneth Galbraith passed away on April 29, 2006, the economics profession lost one of its true giants. And this is not just because Galbraith was an imposing figure at 6 feet, 9 inches tall. Throughout his life, Galbraith advised Presidents, made important professional contributions to the discipline of economics, and also tried to explain economic ideas to the genera...

    $1,160.00

  • FIFTY MAJOR ECONOMISTS
    STEVEN PRESSMAN
    An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign debt problems which face the world today, it includes entries on: • Paul K...

    $860.00

  • WOMEN IN THE AGE OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
    ASLANBEIGUI, NAHID / PRESSMAN, STEVEN / SUMMERFIELD, GALE
    Changes are sweeping the world economy and are most apparent in post-socialist Europe and in the developing world. This volume examines the impact these changes are having on women. The authors discuss the evidence of gender bias and reach some telling if unsurprising conclusions. Regardless of the country involved, the findings point to consistent female disadvantage in the tr...

    $780.00

  • A NEW GUIDE TO POST-KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
    RICHARD P. F. HOLT / STEVEN PRESSMAN
    Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theo ...

    $2,100.00

  • INTERACTIONS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
    STEVEN PRESSMAN
    In recent years there has been a growing dissatisfaction with standard economic theorising which has fostered the development of alternative ways of understanding how economies actually work. Too often though these approaches have been developed in isolation, or even in opposition to each other. However, Interactions in Political Economy, demonstra ...

    $1,320.00