Economic Theory & Philosophy

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be foun...

The Philosophy of Economics primarily considers the economic agent as a moral subject. Economics, however, has long overlooked the agents moral th...

The marginalist revolution of the late nineteenth century consolidated what Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa called vulgar economy, bringing with it an e...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

The book describes the evolution of economic theory, considering historical, political and scientific perspectives. It discusses economic concepts ...

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same ...

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by t...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieus key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieus central theoretical ...

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In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed. Freedom was...

In feudal society, it was the few at the top who laid the ground for what was produced, how it was produced and how it was distributed. Freedom was...

Islamic finance has emerged to meet the financial needs of people who seek a different approach to conventional banking and finance. Due to its lat...

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these...

Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call the e...

This book seeks to explain long-term economic development and institutional change in terms of the cognitive features of human learning and communi...

This book rethinks economic theory and calls for a creative and pragmatic approach to policymaking. It examines what development and sustenance of ...

Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highligh...

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradig...