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Product Description: This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of the leading figures in the field...read more

Product Description: This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics...read more

Product Description: Lance Taylor is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent development economists in the world and is known for his work on development planning, macroeconomics of development, stabilization policy, and the global economy. He has also been the major force behind structuralist economics, which is seen by many to be a major alternative to orthodox development economics and policy prescriptions...read more

Product Description: This three-volume set collects key previously published articles in the field of development economics, covering alternative approaches and going beyond the boundaries of economics narrowly defined. Some of the included papers are classic contributions, some are authoritative survey articles and others are interesting new contributions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Markets and the state are usually seen in opposition to each other as instruments of economic development. This important new book attempts to go beyond the state-market debate, which it sees largely as the intellectual legacy of neoclassical economics and the related pendulum swings of opinion favouring one against the other...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of mathematically-based, economic research by scholars from a breadth of non-neoclassical research traditions. Drawing on classical, Marxist, post-Keynesian and Kaleckian, structuralist, evolutionary and institutionalist approaches, these essays address four key areas of economics: unemployment, finance and business cycles; accumulation, distribution and technical change; value and price; and contemporary debates in development economics...read more

Product Description: The decade of the 1980s represented a notable deviation from the widespread and significant development advances of the previous 30 years. This was reflected in an extensive re-examination of the theoretical and empirical bases of development economics...read more

Product Description: This book presents an international study of economic growth and income distribution, with a focus on North-South differences. The text discusses the topic from a purely theoretical perspective, comparing the relations between economies by using formal mathematical models...read more

Product Description: Keynes, John Maynard, -- 1883-1946. Ricardo, David, -- 1772-1823.