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Crossing A Transgender Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9780226662565, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am". Once a golden boy of conservative economi...
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£15,00
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Economical Writing Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226448077, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones
Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic...
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£11,00
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Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
 There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...
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£17,00
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£37,50
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