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By: Samuel Bostaph

ISBN: 9780739189832
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This economic biography examines the rise of Andrew Carnegie from a poverty-stricken childhood to a position of international leadership, philanthropy, and peace advocacy. It presents a dynamic and entrepreneurial economic actor who built an industrial empire by shrewd calculation and innovations in products, technology, and industrial organization.


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By: Edward W. Younkins

ISBN: 9781498519298
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.


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By: Henry C. Clark

ISBN: 9780739192504
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume provides an integrated and wide-ranging set of primary-source readings on the relationship between moral values and economic activity, as articulated by some of the leading figures in Western civilization.


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By: Kathleen Touchstone

ISBN: 9781498596992
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book uses the philosophies of Objectivism, rule-utilitarianism, and neo-Aristotelianism to argue that ethical risk-taking is vital for economic flourishing.


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By: Clifford F. Thies

ISBN: 9781498546157
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Global Economics: A Holistic Approach integrates real world examples and case studies with economic analysis to examine the emerging global economy. It covers topics not typically considered by international economics, such as migration, in addition to taking a fresh approach to traditional topics.


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By: Clifford F. Thies

ISBN: 9781498546171
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Global Economics: A Holistic Approach integrates real world examples and case studies with economic analysis to examine the emerging global economy. It covers topics not typically considered by international economics, such as migration, in addition to taking a fresh approach to traditional topics.


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By: Ryan H. Murphy

ISBN: 9781498591188
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. The public expresses hostility for these institutions both in the voting booth and in their private lives, and even through the marketplace itself.


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By: Mateusz Machaj

ISBN: 9781498557542
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production argues that what modern economic theory lacks is a solid capital theory. This book attempts to fill the gap in the theory of production structure by offering an opportunity for deepened understanding of economic processes of growth, pricing and business cycles.


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By: Felix R. Livingston

ISBN: 9781498575591
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book develops a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing, based on work by Aristotle and the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking. It explores how entrepreneurs can prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, a moral challenge faced by leaders in all parts of society.


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By: Felix R. Livingston

ISBN: 9781498575577
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book develops a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing, based on work by Aristotle and the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking. It explores how entrepreneurs can prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, a moral challenge faced by leaders in all parts of society.


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By: Ed Younkins

ISBN: 9781498546119
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.


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By: Edward W. Younkins

ISBN: 9781498546096
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.


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By: Cecil E. Bohanon

ISBN: 9780739191835
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.


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By: Cecil E. Bohanon

ISBN: 9781498530262
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pride and Profit explores the ways in which Jane Austens novels interact with the ideas of economist Adam Smith. Bohanon and Vachris show how Smithian perspectives on virtue are depicted in Austens novels and how Smiths and Austens perspectives reflect and define the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution.


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By: Roger E. Bissell

ISBN: 9781498592093
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays explore ways that liberty can be better defended using a dialectical approach. In addition to libertarian theory and dialectics, some of the areas examined include evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, and sociology of the family and of American popular songs, social justice, and political change.


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By: Roger E. Bissell

ISBN: 9781498592116
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays explore ways that liberty can be better defended using a dialectical approach. In addition to libertarian theory and dialectics, some of the areas examined include evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, and sociology of the family and of American popular songs, social justice, and political change.


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By: Robert White

ISBN: 9781498542630
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Moral Case for Profit Maximization considers the moral status of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by forming values and cultivating the virtues.


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By: Robert White

ISBN: 9781498542654
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Moral Case for Profit Maximization considers the moral status of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by forming values and cultivating the virtues.


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By: Leonidas Zelmanovitz

ISBN: 9780739195116
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.


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By: Leonidas Zelmanovitz

ISBN: 9780739195130
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.


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By: Per L. Bylund

ISBN: 9780739194591
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book shows the effects and implications of regulation on how the market functions, with an emphasis on how regulation affects economic actors in other parts of the economy. It focuses on how re-allocation of resources due to real change versus artificial change caused by regulation affects the choice situation of individual actors.


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By: Per L. Bylund

ISBN: 9780739194577
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book shows the effects and implications of regulation on how the market functions, with an emphasis on how regulation affects economic actors in other parts of the economy. It focuses on how re-allocation of resources due to real change versus artificial change caused by regulation affects the choice situation of individual actors.


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By: Walter E. Block

ISBN: 9781498518826
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.


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By: Walter E. Block

ISBN: 9781498518802
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.