Economic Systems & Structures

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years....

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading ...

The assessment and measurement of the level of well-being in a society have been on the radar of researchers and institutions for many years. The c...

The growing centrality of risk management in pro-market governance raises important questions regarding how risks are produced, and why? Who and wh...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varouf...

'A magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history ... This is a book for today and tomorrow' Financial Times Capitalist enterprise has exi...

Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abun...

The iconic economist-philosopher Adam Smith lauded capitalism as a system for distributing opportunity and prosperity widely, and for freeing popul...

This book takes an intermediate place between monographs and textbooks: on the one hand, it contains known, yet unusually portrayed facts, and on t...