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David Reisman
In 2013 an American Jewish family innocently visited Muslim Holy Sites in Jerusalem and accidentally fell into a long-standing local conflict. This is a story of how the Imam of…
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In Being and Nothingness , Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology. This work describes Sartre’s account of…
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This collection of ten volumes makes available in a single edition ten classic texts of twentieth-century British political economy.
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This collection makes available in a single set a total of 42 influential contributions to British economic and political thought. Twenty-six authors are represented.
The texts in this collection demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism
A collection of ten classic texts of 20th-century British political economy
This three volume reissue covers the life and times of leading economic theorist, Alfred Marshall - one of the founders of neoclassical economics.
First published in 1986, The Economics of Alfred Marshall is concerned with the theories of demand, supply, market structure and income distribution which the celebrated author of the Principles of…
First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides a very detailed insight into Marshall’s thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity.
A survey of the political economy of James Buchanan seeking to explain his theories in detail and evaluate them in depth, covering topics such as the constitution and its failure…
In this highly readable analysis, the authors use positive-economics principles to show how the supply and demand of monopoly rights from the state (rent seeking) provided first the impetus for…
First published in 1987, this book provides a very detailed insight into Marshall’s thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity.
Marshall’s theories of economic and social advancement are explained with reference to the scientific and philosophical movements which influenced them: utilitarianism, evolutionism, mathematical marginalism and ethical idealism.
First published in 1990, Alfred Marshall’s Mission explains how this most moral of political economists sought to blend the downward sloping utility function of Jevons and Menger with the organic…
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in…
Meade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 (jointly with Bertil Ohlin) for his contribution to international economics, but could just as easily have been awarded this for…
People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences. Economic Thought and Political Theory, concentrates on the ideas of Plato, Steuart, Mill, Schumpeter, Hayek, Buchanan, the…
This book examines the economic, social and political thought of two highly influential cross-disciplinary contributors to the debate in the United Kingdom about welfare economics, social welfare, nationalisation and public…
David Reisman,William Morris
David Reisman,Harold Laski
David Reisman,Douglas Jay
This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as…
This book contains essays that address issues of economic policy ranging from privatisation of industry and financial markets to education and the proposal for an internal market in the health…
David Colum Reisman
This volume represents a new philological approach to the study of the medieval philosopher Avicenna by investigating the manuscripts and textual transmission of his philosophical correspondence with students and colleagues.
This collection of papers addresses a variety of aspects of the life and thought of the medieval philosopher Avicenna including his reception of Classical philosophy, his views on topics such…
