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78 produkter
Schooling In Capitalist America
Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life
Av Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles
Häftad, 2011
377 kr
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"This seminal work . . . establishes a persuasive new paradigm."—Contemporary SociologyNo book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators.Samuel Bowles is …
Microeconomics
Competition, Conflict, and Coordination
Av Samuel Bowles, Simon D. Halliday
Häftad, 2022
857 kr
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Bowles and Halliday capture the intellectual excitement, analytical precision, and policy relevance of the new microeconomics that has emerged over the past decades. Drawing on themes of the classical economists from Smith through Marx and 20th century writers - including Hayek, Coase, and Arrow - …
Understanding Capitalism
Competition, Command, and Change
Av Samuel Bowles, Frank Roosevelt m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1834 kr
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Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic …
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Av Herbert Gintis, Ernst Fehr m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
718 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. …
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Av Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3864 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments? Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. …
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Av Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1133 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. …
Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Häftad, 2017
195 kr
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Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail?Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles …
Politics and Economics of Power
Av Samuel Bowles, Maurizio Franzini m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
3155 kr
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This edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - traditionally the focus of political science - is becoming increasingly important to economists in order to understand concepts such as the 'contested nature' of market …
Democracy and Capitalism
Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human …
Democracy and Capitalism
Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Häftad, 2012
749 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human …
Markets and Democracy
Participation, Accountability and Efficiency
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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The market does not spontaneously generate democratic or participatory economic institutions. This book asks whether a modern, efficient economy can be rendered democratically accountable and, if so, what strategic changes might be required to regulate the market-mediated interaction of economic …
Markets and Democracy
Participation, Accountability and Efficiency
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1928 kr
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The market does not spontaneously generate democratic or participatory economic institutions. This book asks whether a modern, efficient economy can be rendered democratically accountable and, if so, what strategic changes might be required to regulate the market-mediated interaction of economic …
Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
Av Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
871 kr
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Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a …
Microeconomics
Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
Häftad, 2006
844 kr
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In this novel introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings of the institutions of capitalist economies, and the coevolution of individual preferences and the structures of …
Unequal Chances
Family Background and Economic Success
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
503 kr
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Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, …
Cooperative Species
Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
Av Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Häftad, 2013
307 kr
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Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to …
Poverty Traps
Av Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
289 kr
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Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic …
Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Av Samuel Bowles, Pranab Bardhan m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
927 kr
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Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world''s disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability , leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research …
Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
Av Steven N. Durlauf, Samuel Bowles m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1170 kr
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Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a …
Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution
Av Michael Wallerstein, Samuel Bowles m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
955 kr
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Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world''s leading authorities in international …
After the Waste Land
Democratic Economics for the Year 2000
Av Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
2585 kr
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This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.
After the Waste Land
Democratic Economics for the Year 2000
Av Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
772 kr
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This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.
Our new West. Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Including a Ful
Inbunden, 2022
484 kr
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Our new West. Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Including a Ful
Häftad, 2022
367 kr
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Switzerland of America
A Summer Vacaton in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado
Inbunden, 2023
382 kr
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