In the seventh volume of the successful 50 Ideas series, Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of 50 clear and concise essays.

Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

A prescient book criticising the greed and unsustainable economic practices which have proved to be the seeds of a world-wide recession. It considers how the economic landscape has shifted in a decade, and asks the crucial question: where do we go from here?

In the financial crisis, John Maynard Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected.

This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen provides a useful overview of the development process.

A dazzling application of new economic theories to the world around us - by the author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST

A textbook that presents economics from the viewpoint of a reader. It sets out ten principles, which are revisited throughout the text. It introduces interdependence and gains from trade. It covers microeconomics, macroeconomics, and preserving Mankiw's trademark long run-short run approach.

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.

Focuses on key auction types. This book includes a chapter on combinatorial auctions and analyses of theory-informed applications. It also includes LaTex Beamer slides, chapter-ending exercises, problems of varying difficulties, and a solutions manual that supports and reinforces key points.

Presenting what E V Ilyenkov calls the development of a 'fully logical and really historical' dialectical examination of human social production, this book aims to restore social production and classes back at the centre of Marxist theory.

Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. This book describes the problems and bizarre contradictions in conventional economics as well as the principles of new economics, and it tells real-world stories of how new economics is being successfully put into practice around the world.

Current perspectives on the Phillips curve, a core macroeconomic concept that treats the relationship between inflation and unemployment.

20 years after the collapse of communism in Central Eastern European countries and 30 years after the start of market-oriented reforms in China, this book provides a framework for understanding the differing emphasis and sequencing of two reforms and explores in-depth these issues in the demise of communism and the triumph of the market economy.

States that the private sector and the public realm are becoming increasingly intertwined. This title shows how politics and the media have colluded in the myth of a benign market system, accepting obscene pay gaps and unrestrained self-enrichment - ultimately meaning that we have come to condone legal, legitimate, 'innocent' fraud.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.

Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. We have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are. All the evidence shows that on an average, people have grown no happier. It is true of Britain, Japan, and other countries. This book shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives.

Gives an analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian-school perspective. Written in 1940, before the United States was officially involved in World War II, this book offers insight into the war economies of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy.

Provides Mises' analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian-school perspective. This book offers an insight into the war economies of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy.

A unique analysis of the role that reciprocity plays in the economics of social relationships.