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Are Worker Rights Human Rights?
by Richard P. McIntyre

In a global economy, workers must assert their collective rights as workers in order to win human rights as individuals.

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Capitol Investments
The Marketability of Political Skills
by Glenn R. Parker

Members of Congress purposefully develop expertise to improve their employment prospects after they leave office.

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Contesting the Commons
Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya
by Carolyn K. Lesorogol

Examines the highly disputed idea of privatizing communal land through one Samburu community.

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Good Money
Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
by George Selgin

Private Enterprise and the Foundation of Modern Coinage.

Helping People Help Themselves
From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance
by David Ellerman
foreword by Albert O. Hirschman

Presents the argument that development is a transformative process that cannot be imposed from the outside.

• The book provides a structural critique of the World Bank's approach to development assistance
• The main purpose is to lay the intellectual foundations for an alternative approach
• The book takes a broad interdisciplinary approach drawing from educational theory, management theory, community organizing, psychology, and philosophy

Imperfect Institutions
Possibilities and Limits of Reform
by Thráinn Eggertsson

Surveys the new institutional theory of economic prosperity—and decline. Explores institutional policy and opportunities for reform.

• Up-to-date evaluation of new institutional economics
• Unique emphasis on policy implications
• Analysis of failed institutions
• Abundant empirical examples

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In Defense of Monopoly
How Market Power Fosters Creative Production
by Richard B. McKenzie and Dwight R. Lee

A provocative defense of market dominance.

Institutions and Economic Theory
The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics, Second Edition
by Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter

Explores the NIE with a critical assessment of its theoretical contributions.

• Considers the state of modern institutional analysis and provides a systematic account of the development of the New Institutional Economics
• Emphasis on critical assessment of leading theoretical and empirical writings in the field, as well as from sociology, political science, and game theory
• Looks at the relationship of the NIE to mainstream neoclassical theory, and to whether the NIE, which has its roots in transaction-cost economics, property rights analysis, and contract theory, can form the basis of a new paradigm in economics

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Integrity and Agreement
Economics When Principles Also Matter
by Lanse Minkler

Moral principle—not mere self-interest—drives rational decision making.

Liberating Economics
Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
by Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The first accessible book to offer a feminist analysis of economic relationships illuminates the role of gender in contemporary economic life.

What Professors Are Saying
"This book is a must-read for every future economist, undergraduate and graduate, and for every women's studies student. It is a great read for the rest of us. It should be required reading for every policy-maker at the WB, IMF, and WTO."
—Sandra Harding, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies UCLA

Readings in Public Choice Economics
edited by Jac C. Heckelman

The first classroom book for undergraduate courses in public choice analysis, covering both political economy and social choice issues.

• Comprehensive in that topics cover political economy and social choice
• Each topic includes a 2-3 page overview
• Individual chapters are carefully screened to be understandable to undergraduates with only an introductory background; they are unencumbered by technical notations or advanced econometrics
• Review questions to guide readings

Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
by Robert J.S. Ross

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth.

Socialism after Hayek
by Theodire A. Burczak

Develops an ethical and economically feasible model of socialism, based on a novel synthesis of Hayekian market process theory, Marxian class theory, and an Aristotelian theory of justice.

• The book will help students see how "postmodernist" ideas can be linked to economics
• The book will help students see how Hayek's conservative, free-market ideas can be linked to socialist ideas of fraternity and equality, through a model of market socialism composed of workers' cooperatives and wealth redistribution
• The book compares and contrasts Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's social democratic theory of justice with Hayek’s free-market theory of justice

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The Street Porter and the Philosopher
Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings.

The "Vanity of the Philosopher"
From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Attempts to explain the shift from egalitarian Classical economic thought to the difference and hierarchy of post-Classical economic thinking.

• Students who read Vanity will come to understand that many attacks on economics in the past have been the result of terrific vanity on the part of so-called “experts” whose desire was to direct or remake people
• Students will see how hierarchy entered into economic analysis once notions of inherited difference became pervasive
• Vanity will push students to examine the implications of the assumptions we make in economics. Students will come to appreciate the significance of debates about incentives and institutions and to understand why economists, today, abstract from difference

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States
Current Issues
edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji

A unique examination of asset accumulation and the connection between wealth and well-being among different racial and ethnic communities in the United States.

• This book serves as a handbook or guide for individuals who are interested in understanding social inequality, and for individuals who are interested in understanding the current state of wealth research
• This book covers topical issues and methodological issues, which will help students understand the techniques that researchers who study wealth use, and how the choice of technique can sometimes influence the results
• The book provides an overview of the major data sets used to analyze questions in the field, which will help graduate students who might wish to conduct their own research on wealth inequality