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The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
Daniel Bell
Paperback - $46.95
A 1976 forecast that predicts a radically altered social structure, within thirty to fifty years, by which a more sophisticated technology is employed to harness science toward more instrumental purposes.
Small Change : The Economics of Child Support
Andrea H. Beller
Paperback - $75.95
Economists Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham discuss what went right and what went wrong with child support payments during the 1980s, investigating the socio-economic and legal factors that determined child support awards and receipts, documenting ...
Trade Secrets : Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
Doron Ben-Atar
Hardcover - $86.95
During the first decades of America's existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was de ...
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe : Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization
Ivan T. Berend
Paperback - $82.95
A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding ...
Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993 : Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery
Ivan T. Berend
Paperback - $82.95
An ambitious, comparative analysis of ???Eastern Bloc??? economies during a period of revolutionary change.
A Perilous Progress : Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
Michael A. Bernstein
Paperback - $53.95
"Michael Bernstein reveals the ironic development of modern economics. On the one hand, he explains how American economists have depended on the growth of democratic government coping with the instability of the twentieth century. On the other hand, ...
The Power of Gold : The History of an Obsession
Peter L. Bernstein
Paperback - $27.95
Praise for The Power of Gold and Peter l. Bernstein
"Mr. Bernstein has turned this story-not an obvious golden opportunity for even a writer of Mr. Bernstein’ s skill-into a real page-turner."-The Wall Street Journal
"Bernstein’ s volum ...
The Power of Gold : The History of an Obsession
Peter L. Bernstein
Hardcover - $73.95
Praise for Peter Bernstein and the power of Gold
"The story of goldin all its splendor and mythology, its fascinationfor individuals and nations alike. . . . Peter Bernstein is up to the challenge. His spritely exposition is a fine read even as i ...
Markets in Historical Contexts : Ideas and Politics in the Modern World
Mark Bevir
Paperback - $96.95