The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and non-working populations, between …
Microeconomics
by Pindyck, Robert S., Rubinfeld, Daniel L.
fromPearson series in economics
This integrated study of law ̧economics and Peircian semiotics re-examines the relationship between law and economics ̧overcoming the dichotomy between efficiency and justice ̧and introduces a new conception of law and market economy. The author challenges several basic assumptions…
Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world--the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that…
Nous vivons au sein d'un leurre magistral, d'un monde disparu que des politiques artificielles prétendent perpétuer. Nos concepts du travail et par là du chômage, autour desquels la politique se joue n'ont plus de substance : des millions de vies sont ravagées, des destins sont …
The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, including natural gas, airlines, and c…
This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no b…
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldw…
From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. It is now questioned what makes these institutions work, how important they are and how we can im…
This work seeks to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the dynamism that capitalism brings with it, the author argues that the basic drift of any one market and it's actors, even allowing for competition, is towa…