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The Concept of the Political
Schmitt, Carl
Chicago U.P. (2007)
- EAN: 9780226738925
- Páginas: 162
- Fecha de edición: 2007
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In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state - a critique as ...
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The Sounds of Capitalism
Taylor, Timohty D
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226791159
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since ...
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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
O'Malley, Michael
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226629384
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted ...
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Building a Market "The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960"
Harris, Richard
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226317663
- Páginas: 472
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, ...
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The Moral Neoliberal
Muehlebach, Andrea
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226545400
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. Setting ...
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Solidaraty in Strategy
Spillman, Lyn
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226769578
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Though this may largely be true, it conflicts with our actual experience of the realities of capitalism - and ...
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The Political Economy of Pipelines "A Century of Comparative Institutional Development"
Makholm, Jeff D
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226502106
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance ...
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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited "National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report"
Lerner, Josh
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226473031
- Páginas: 632
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of ...
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Investigations in Economics Aging
Wise, David A.
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226903132
- Páginas: 504
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution ...
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Wasted World "How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet."
Hengeveld, Rob
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226326993
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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All systems produce waste as part of a cycle - bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled - ...
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Shareholder Democracies? "Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland Before 1850."
Freeman, Mark Pearson, Robin Taylor, James
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226261874
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism, corporations and joint-stock companies had their origins in Europe during ...
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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars "Critical Explorations in the History of Religions"
Lincoln, Bruce
Chicago U.P. (2012)
- EAN: 9780226481876
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions ...
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Bourgeois Dignity "Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World"
Mccloskey, Deirdre N.
Chicago U.P. (2011)
- EAN: 9780226556741
- Páginas: 592
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the ...
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Bourgeois Dignity "Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World"
Mccloskey, Deirdre N.
Chicago U.P. (2010)
- EAN: 9780226556659
- Páginas: 592
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.33,15 €
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The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the ...
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Asset Prices and Monetary Policy
Campbell, John
Chicago U.P. (2008)
- EAN: 9780226092119
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.71,50 €
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Economic growth, low inflation, and financial stability are among the most important goals of policy makers, and central banks such as the Federal Reserve are key institutions for achieving these goals. In "Asset Prices and ...
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The Quest "History and Meaning in Religion"
History and Meaning in ReligionEliade, Mircea
Chicago U.P. (1984)
- EAN: 9780226203867
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 1984
pvp.17,60 €
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In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what ...
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Law, Legislation and Liberty Vol.1 "Rules and Order"
Rules and OrderHayek, Friedrich A.
Chicago U.P. (1978)
- EAN: 9780226320861
- Páginas: 121
- Fecha de edición: 1978
pvp.21,65 €
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This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of ...
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Law, Legislation and Liberty Vol.2 "The Mirage of Social Justice"
The Mirage of Social JusticeHayek, Friedrich A.
Chicago U.P. (1978)
- EAN: 9780226320830
- Páginas: 210
- Fecha de edición: 1978
pvp.26,35 €
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F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the second of Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations ...
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Law, Legislation and Liberty Vol.3 "The Political Order of Free People"
The Political Order of Free PeopleHayek, Friedrich A.
Chicago U.P. (1981)
- EAN: 9780226320908
- Páginas: 258
- Fecha de edición: 1981
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Incisive, straightforward, and eloquent, this third and concluding volume of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive assessment of the basic political principles which order and sustain free societies contains the clearest and most uncompromising exposition of the ...
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Hybrid "The History and Science Plant Breeding"
The History and Science Plant BreedingKingsbury, Noel
Chicago U.P. (2009)
- EAN: 9780226437040
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.34,95 €
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Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots ...
