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Liberating Economics, Second Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

2nd Edition

By Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner
Subjects: Economics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Sociology

Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism

Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia

Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography

Edited by Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Economics, International Economics, Sociology
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Uncovers patterns of social interaction made visible through scenarios of economic exchange

Embedded Politics

Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism

By Gerald Andrew McDermott
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

An empirical analysis of changing industrial processes in the postcommunist Czech Republic

The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia

A Four-Country Comparative Study

Edited by Albert Isaac Hermalin
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Asian Studies, Sociology, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management

Examines the effects of social and economic change on the aging populations of Asia

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States

Current Issues

Edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Ngina S. Chiteji
Subjects: African American Studies, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies

A unique examination of asset accumulation and the connection between wealth and well-being among different racial and ethnic communities in the United States

A Telescope on Society

Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond

Edited by James S. House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, and Howard Schuman
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

Maps the development of social science in the twentieth century through the instrument of survey research

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change

By Luis Medina
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Economy, Economics, Sociology
Series: Analytical Perspectives on Politics

An intriguing examination of one of the most important unresolved problems in social choice theory: how do we best understand people's decision to pay the cost of a public good?

The White Welfare State

The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy

By Deborah E. Ward
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Economics, Sociology, Public Policy

Groundbreaking new research into the historical relationship between race and social welfare

Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences

Foundations and Applications

Edited by L. Douglas Kiel & Euel W. Elliott
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, Economics

Applications of chaos theory in political science, economics, and sociology

Growth Triumphant

The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

By Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like

A Civil Economy

Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

By Severyn T. Bruyn
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

An accessible overview of the concept of the civil economy and how it works

Preference Pollution

How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike

By David George
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the failure of markets to shape desirable preferences

Coping With Poverty

The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

Edited by Sheldon Danziger & Ann Chih Lin
Subjects: Sociology, Economics, African American Studies, Political Science, American Politics, Class Studies

Qualitative research seeks to place poverty among African-Americans into the context of family, work, and community

Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis

By Robert Franzese & Cindy Kam
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, Psychology, Economics

Liberating Economics

Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

1st Edition

By Drucilla Barker & Susan F. Feiner
Subjects: Economics, Gender Studies, Political Science, Sociology
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

The first accessible book to offer a feminist analysis of economic relationships illuminates the role of gender in contemporary economic life

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Capitol Investments

The Marketability of Political Skills

By Glenn R. Parker
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, American Politics, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

A sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the acquisition and marketability of political skills

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Economics in Real Time

A Theoretical Reconstruction

By John Francis McDermott
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

A new model for contemporary economic behavior

Economics as a Social Science

An Approach to Nonautistic Theory

By Andrew M. Kamarck
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science

Rescues economic theory from mathematics, restoring a realistic approach to human motivations and behavior in the real world economy

Social Science and Policy-Making

A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

Edited by David Lee Featherman & Maris Arvids Vinovskis
Subjects: Political Science, Sociology, Economics, History of Economic Thought

How the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform

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