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The Professionalization of Economics

Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy

By: John Maloney

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The Professionalization of Economics

Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy

By: John Maloney

This book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.

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Routledge

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1000680002

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9781000680003

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

By: John P. Henderson,John B. Davis

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The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

By: John P. Henderson,John B. Davis

John P. Henderson's The Life and Economics of David Ricardo represents the first comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brilliant and influential British economist. Employing the talents of both a biographer and an economist, the author examines Ricardo's early years, his Sephardic origins and his employment in the London financial markets, as well as his later work on money and banking, international trade, economic instability and the theory of rent and value. Henderson also provides a thorough investigation of Ricardo's relationships with Thomas Robert Malthus and other classical economists. The Life and Economics of David Ricardo will be of interest not only to historians of economic thought and students of economics, but also to any economist working in the Ricardian or Classical Political Economy tradition.

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685

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461561299

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9781461561293

Family Life and Social Control

A Sociological Perspective

By: John J. Rodger

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Family Life and Social Control

A Sociological Perspective

By: John J. Rodger

State intervention in family life is an important and problematic political and social issue, and one which is surrounded by debates of a highly ideological nature. The central theme of this valuable book is that of 'family life' as an object of both social policy interest and welfare intervention. The author applies a sociological perspective on social control to a range of issues exciting public and political debate; amongst them, marriage conciliation, community care, lone parenthood and underclass status, and child abuse.

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237

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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134924628X

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Central Banking in a Democracy

The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives

By: John H. Wood

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Central Banking in a Democracy

The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives

By: John H. Wood

The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial institutions at taxpayers' expense during the recent Great Recession. This book is a study of the causes of the Fed’s errors, with lessons for an improved monetary authority, beginning with an examination of the history of central banks, in which it is found that their performance depended on their incentives, as is to be expected of economic agents. An implication of these findings is that the Fed’s failings must be traced to its institutional independence, particularly of the public welfare. Consequently, its policies have been dictated by special interests: financial institutions who desire public support without meaningful regulation, as well as presidents and those portions of Congress desiring growing government financed by inflation. Monetary stability (which used to be thought the primary purpose of central banks) requires responsibility, meaning punishment for failure, instead of a remote and irresponsible (to the public) agency such as the Fed. It requires either private money motivated by profit or Congress disciplined by the electoral system as before 1913. Change involving the least disturbance to the system suggests the latter.

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Routledge

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1317704312

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A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

By: John H. Wood

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A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

By: John H. Wood

This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States.

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464

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Cambridge University Press

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0521850134

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9780521850131

Anger and After (Routledge Revivals)

A Guide to the New British Drama

By: John Russell Taylor

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Anger and After (Routledge Revivals)

A Guide to the New British Drama

By: John Russell Taylor

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold Wesker. Thoroughly revised in 1969, this book remains important reading for theatre students in need of a comprehensive and authoritative guide to post-Osborne drama in Britain.

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1317917065

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Revival: Economics and Ethics (1923)

A Treatise on Wealth and Life

By: John Arthur Ransome Marriot

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Revival: Economics and Ethics (1923)

A Treatise on Wealth and Life

By: John Arthur Ransome Marriot

The argument of this book is addressed to those who desire to order their daily lives, in the homme, in the shop, in the factory, or on the farm, in conformity with the highest ethical standards, or in more familiar words, to live according to the will of God; and to them only. They constitute, I hope, a large proportion of mankind but be that as it ma, I know that there are at present among them many who are sorely perplexed in mind, and gravely disturbed in conscience, by the apparent contradiction between the precepts of ethics and the laws of economics. It is my earnest hope that in this book they mind some help towards the solution of their difficulties

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248

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Routledge

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1351344188

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9781351344180

Culture And Currency

Cultural Bias In Monetary Theory And Policy

By: John W. Houghton

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Culture And Currency

Cultural Bias In Monetary Theory And Policy

By: John W. Houghton

The aim of this book is to shed light on how people come to hold opposing views, how these views solidify into the sides of a debate and how one side becomes the dominant view. Why, as all have access to the same nature, physical and human, don't they come to the same conclusions? Or, if each individual is different, why don't they come to wholly different conclusions? A sociology of perception must explain both why the world resembles neither an epistemological Tower of Babel in which communication between individuals is impossible nor a homogenized blend in which communication is no longer necessary. t

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Routledge

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0429710445

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9780429710445

George Santayana

A Biography

By: John Rodden

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George Santayana

A Biography

By: John Rodden

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations. There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the academy and remained detached from both the political and ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century. McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.

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Routledge

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1351517627

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9781351517621

Following the River Camel

By: John Neale

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Following the River Camel

By: John Neale

A delightful journey along the beautiful river Camel - a must-read not only for those who know the river but also for those who have yet to discover it.

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230

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445625040

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9781445625041

Burnside's Bridge

Antietam

By: John Cannon

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Burnside's Bridge

Antietam

By: John Cannon

The stone bridge on the southern flank of the Antietam battlefield became one of the Civil War's most powerful symbols of courage and sacrifice. Each stage of the battle is described by extracts from memoirs and diaries of the time, with details of the area as it was in 1862 and as it is today.

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Pen and Sword

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0850527570

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9780850527575

Book's by John Cannan

The Professionalization of Economics

The Professionalization of Economics

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

Family Life and Social Control

Family Life and Social Control

Central Banking in a Democracy

Central Banking in a Democracy

A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

Anger and After (Routledge Revivals)

Anger and After (Routledge Revivals)

Revival: Economics and Ethics (1923)

Revival: Economics and Ethics (1923)

Culture And Currency

Culture And Currency

George Santayana

George Santayana

Following the River Camel

Following the River Camel

Burnside's Bridge

Burnside's Bridge

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