Economics and Finance
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Constraining Development
The Shrinking of Policy Space in the International Trade Regime
Rachel Denae Thrasher
This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries negotiating new treaties.
Anthem Press
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9781785277610
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries negotiating new treaties.
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Technological Retrogression
A Schumpeterian Interpretation of Modernization in Reverse
Sylvi B. Endresen
foreword by Erik ReinertThe aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive economic dynamics of technological change to progressive dynamics as developed by Schumpeter.
Anthem Press
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9781785277139
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive economic dynamics of technological change to progressive dynamics as developed by Schumpeter.
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Process Philosophy
A Synthesis
Bart Nooteboom
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger and employs insights from economics, sociology, anthropology and social psychology.
Anthem Press
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9781785277467
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger and employs insights from economics, sociology, anthropology and social psychology.
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Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’: A Guide to Volumes I–III
Kenneth Smith
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
Anthem Press
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9781839980008
March 2021
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£29.95 / $29.95This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Causes and Consequences of Global Migration
Joakim Ruist
The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.
Anthem Press
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9781785276774
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.
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Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Economics of Happiness
Sami Al-Daghistani
This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
Anthem Press
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9781785275302
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
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The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth
Voices from the Global Diplomacy Lab
Edited by Eirliani Abdul Rahman, ElsaMarie D'Silva, Sonja Peteranderl
The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
Anthem Press
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9781785276316
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
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The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile
An International Perspective
Andrés Solimano
‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribution to big corporations and foreign countries, and high profit rates for pension fund managing companies.
Anthem Press
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9781785273568
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribution to big corporations and foreign countries, and high profit rates for pension fund managing companies.
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Marx in the Field
Edited by Alessandra Mezzadri
Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.
Anthem Press
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9781785274497
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.
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Japan’s Budget Black Hole
Deregulation of the Workforce and Shortfalls in Government Revenue
Keiko Shimono
This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.
Anthem Press
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9781785276477
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.
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Exotic Alternative Investments
Standalone Characteristics, Unique Risks and Portfolio Effects
Kevin R. Mirabile
This book evaluates new opportunities such as life settlements, litigation funding, farmlands, royalties, weather derivatives, collectables and other unique asset classes. It provides an in-depth analysis of the returns, risks, opportunities and portfolio effects for investors, advisors and academics and anyone who wants to expand their investment horizons.
Anthem Press
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9781785276101
January 2021
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£59.95 / $59.95This book evaluates new opportunities such as life settlements, litigation funding, farmlands, royalties, weather derivatives, collectables and other unique asset classes. It provides an in-depth analysis of the returns, risks, opportunities and portfolio effects for investors, advisors and academics and anyone who wants to expand their investment horizons.
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Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation
Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry
Sergei Komlev
Edited by Daniel Satinsky‘Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation’ analyzes market pricing for natural gas as a unique and controversially priced commodity. Natural gas is a critical foundational fuel that will not be supplemented by renewables for many years. Sergei Komlev explains why and how correct market price signals are critical to avoiding potential market failure.
Anthem Press
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9781785273384
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation’ analyzes market pricing for natural gas as a unique and controversially priced commodity. Natural gas is a critical foundational fuel that will not be supplemented by renewables for many years. Sergei Komlev explains why and how correct market price signals are critical to avoiding potential market failure.
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Literature and Inequality
Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age
Daniel Shaviro
Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.
Anthem Press
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9781785273667
March 2020
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£39.99 / $39.99Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors’ eras but today.
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Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America
Edited by Alberto Chong, Mónica Yáñez-Pagans
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
Anthem Press
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9781785271991
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
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Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice
Fu-Lai Tony Yu
“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.
Anthem Press
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9781785272110
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.
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A Treatise on Abundance (1638) and Early Modern Views on Poverty and Famine
Carlo Tapia
Edited by Tommaso Astarita, Gaetano Sabatini‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.
Anthem Press
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9781783089581
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.
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The Visionary Realism of German Economics
From the Thirty Years' War to the Cold War
Erik S. Reinert
Edited by Rainer Kattel‘The Visionary Realism of German Economics’ forms a collection of Erik S. Reinert’s essays bringing the more realistic German economic tradition into focus as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon neoclassical mainstream economics.
Anthem Press
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9781783089031
February 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Visionary Realism of German Economics’ forms a collection of Erik S. Reinert’s essays bringing the more realistic German economic tradition into focus as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon neoclassical mainstream economics.
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The Economic Turn
Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe
Edited by Steven Kaplan, Sophus Reinert
‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy.
Anthem Press
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9781783088553
January 2019
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£299.95 / $299.95‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy.
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Economics for People and the Planet
Inequality in the Era of Climate Change
James Boyce
‘Economics for People and the Planet’ challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power can help to safeguard the environment and address climate change. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality. Foreword by Manuel Pastor.
Anthem Press
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9781783088751
January 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Economics for People and the Planet’ challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power can help to safeguard the environment and address climate change. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality. Foreword by Manuel Pastor.
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Austria Supreme (if it so Wishes) (1684): ‘A Strategy for European Economic Supremacy’
Edited by Philipp Roessner
translated by Keith Tribe
Philipp von Hörnigk‘Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684)’ provides a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German mercantilist classic ‘Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will’ (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk.
Anthem Press
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9781783088201
June 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684)’ provides a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German mercantilist classic ‘Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will’ (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk.
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Judge Knot
Politics and Development in International Investment Law
Todd N. Tucker
‘Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.
Anthem Press
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9781783087907
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.
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Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization
Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Korea
Leonardo E. Stanley
"Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization” offers a comparative analysis of the capital account liberalization process and the variety of policy responses generated among a reduced group of Latin American and Asian countries. In particular, the book proposes to critically examine these varied responses from a three-fold perspective: macro, micro-financial and institutional.
Anthem Press
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9781783086740
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00“Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization” offers a comparative analysis of the capital account liberalization process and the variety of policy responses generated among a reduced group of Latin American and Asian countries. In particular, the book proposes to critically examine these varied responses from a three-fold perspective: macro, micro-financial and institutional.
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Classical Economics Today
Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia
Edited by Marcella Corsi, Jan Kregel, Carlo D'Ippoliti
“Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia” comprises a collection of original essays by leading economists who adopt a Classical approach to political economy. The essays showcase the relevance and topicality of the Classical approach, as opposed to the sterility and real-world irrelevance of mainstream economics.
Anthem Press
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9781783087501
January 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00“Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia” comprises a collection of original essays by leading economists who adopt a Classical approach to political economy. The essays showcase the relevance and topicality of the Classical approach, as opposed to the sterility and real-world irrelevance of mainstream economics.
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Worst-Case Economics
Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Frank Ackerman
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
Anthem Press
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9781783087075
October 2017
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£49.00 / $49.00In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.