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How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World
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How the West Grew Rich

By Nathan Rosenberg , L.E. Birdzell, Jr. ,

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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
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Life Against Death

By Norman O. Brown ,

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Liquid Modernity
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Liquid Modernity

By Zygmunt Bauman ,

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Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality
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Dumping In Dixie

By Robert Bullard ,

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If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics
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If Women Counted

By Marilyn Waring ,

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Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
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Beyond Economic Man

By Marianne A. Ferber , Julie A. Nelson ,

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The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
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The Care Manifesto

By The Care Collective , Andreas Chatzidakis , Jamie Hakim , Catherine Rottenberg

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Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
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Gender, Development and Globalization

By Lourdes Beneria , Günseli Berik , Maria Floro

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The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
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The Machinery of Freedom

By David Friedman ,

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat
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The Law by Frederic Bastiat

By Frédéric Bastiat ,

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How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?

By George Monbiot ,

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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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Mission Economy

By Mariana Mazzucato ,

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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
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The System

By Robert B. Reich ,

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Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason
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Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy

By Werner Bonefeld ,

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Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underdevelopment in Rumania and Brazil
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Crafting the Third World

By Joseph L. Love ,

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Studies in the History of Latin American Economic Thought
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Studies in the History of Latin American Economic Thought

By Oreste Popescu ,

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain

By Miguel A. Centeno (editor) , Agustin E. Ferraro (editor) ,

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Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina
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Ideas and Institutions

By Kathryn Sikkink ,

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The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era
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The World That Latin America Created

By Margarita Fajardo ,

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Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
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Making Money

By Christine Desan ,

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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
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War and Gold

By Kwasi Kwarteng ,

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The Nature of Money
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The Nature of Money

By Geoffrey Ingham ,

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The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics
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The Grip of Death

By Michael Rowbotham ,

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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
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Capitalism

By Nancy Fraser , Rahel Jaeggi ,

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Putting Civil Society in Its Place: Governance, Metagovernance and Subjectivity
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Putting Civil Society in Its Place

By Bob Jessop ,

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Global Taxation: How Modern Taxes Conquered the World
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Global Taxation

By Philipp Genschel (editor) , Laura Seelkopf (editor) ,

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A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia
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A Field of One's Own

By Bina Agarwal ,

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Ours: The Case for Universal Property
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Ours

By Peter Barnes ,

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The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice
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The New Environmental Economics

By Eloi Laurent ,

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Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900
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Securing the Fruits of Labor

By James L Huston ,

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Classical Political Economy and Rise to Dominance of Supply and Demand Theories
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Classical Political Economy and Rise to Dominance of Supply and Demand Theories

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The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy
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The Science of Wealth

By Tony Aspromourgos ,

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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
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The Soul's Economy

By Jeffrey Sklansky ,

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No More Fairy Tales: stories to Save our Planet
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No More Fairy Tales

By D.A. Baden (editor) , Kim Stanley Robinson , Andrew Dana Hudson , Paolo Bacigalupi , Sara Foster , Martin Hastie , Nancy Lord , Brian Burt , Matthew Hanson-Kahn , Rasha Barrage

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The Political Economy of Terrorism
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The Political Economy of Terrorism

By Walter Enders , Todd Sandler ,

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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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The Big Myth

By Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway ,

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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
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Empire, Incorporated

By Philip J. Stern ,

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Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy
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Grassroots for Hire

By Edward T. Walker ,

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Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco
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Food and Families in the Making

By Katharina Graf ,

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The Social Life of Money in the English Past
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The Social Life of Money in the English Past

By Deborah Valenze ,

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One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
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One Economics, Many Recipes

By Dani Rodrik ,

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After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
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After Hegemony

By Robert O. Keohane ,

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The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
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The Making of Economic Policy

By Avinash K. Dixit ,

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The Mind of the Master Class
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The Mind of the Master Class

By Eugene D. Genovese , Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ,

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