This intellectually bold but accessible book seeks to go beyond limitations of the reigning neoclassical and institutional paradigms in explaining the organization of economic …
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key …
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key …
Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its …
In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White House, and where Michael Jordan …
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. …
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. …
Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost–benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of …
A Financial Times Book of the Year“The strongest documentation I have seen for the many ways in which inequality is harmful to economic growth.”—Jason Furman“A timely and very …
Imagine each family as a kind of little factory-a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge …
