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The Changing Body
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, …
Political Capitalism
Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains …
Economic Life in the Real World
This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions …
The Love Jones Cohort
Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle …
The Structure, Size and Costs of Urban Settlements
This 1973 book contains the results of a research project carried out at the National Institute between 1966 and 1969 on the economics of urban form. The effects of size, shape and …
The Economics and Sociology of Management Consulting
Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. Originally published in 2006, this book explains the mechanisms of the …
The Politics of Economic Decline
This book originally published in 1979, deals with popular perceptions and expectations of economic trends, popular preferences among economic policies, and the relationships …
The Economics of Individual and Population Aging
This study aims to identify and describe the principle economic issues associated with individual and population ageing. In addition, the study surveys and assess the existing …
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics
A. R. J. Turgot (1727–81), one of the greatest thinkers of the century of the Enlightenment, is known to political historians as a pioneer of the doctrine of universal progress, …
The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines
In recent years there has been a substantial growth in the literature of Australian Aboriginal Studies. While much of this has touched on past and present economic issues from a …