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	ALTMAN, DANIEL Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy United States, September 2008, Picador, 2008. (ISBN: 031242809X) Paperback , 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches. Altman's overview of the world's economic workings is useful and informative, though surprisingly dutiful considering the author's promise of a "whirlwind tour." Moving briskly between topics--pegged to an hour-by-hour timeline gimmick--he discusses many concepts: exchange rates, trade deficits, international deals, currency markets, corruption, financial derivatives, technological innovation, the importance of oil. While addressing the outsized role of the U.S. Altman offers valuable glimpses of key foreign economies and leaves us with a solid understanding of how they fit into "the world trading system." "If you want to cope with connectedness," journalist Altman writes, "you have to be as connected as you can--in other words, you have to pay attention to what's happening in the rest of the world." Granted, anyone who's already paying attention will find much of the book's information somewhat remedial. And Altman's attitude toward globalization is so studiously evenhanded and argument-free that the reader may long for the glossy zeal of an advocate like Thomas Friedman or a detractor like Lou Dobbs. Still, as global macroeconomic primers go, this is a quick read that reminds us that we're all in this together--and that many of us have an awful lot to learn to keep up with the global economy. Very Good. USD 11.99 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1058] Book number: 021072 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	JACOBS, JANE The Nature of Economies Vintage, 2001. (ISBN: 0679310967) Paperback , 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches. Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker, Jane Jacobs shows us that by looking to nature, we can develop economies that are both efficient and ecologically friendly. Very Good. USD 9.99 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 882] Book number: 019315 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	MCLELLAN, DAVID Marx [London], Fontana Press, 1975. (ISBN: 000633833X) Paperback , 18 cm. Would be very good or like-new, but the removal of a price tag from the back has lifted some colour away, too. Product Description Since his death in 1883, Marx has been revised, distorted and rediscovered. This work provides a survey of Marx's life and his contributions to the varied fields of history, economics and politics. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Used - Good. USD 6.99 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 617] Book number: 021067 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	ROTHSCHILD, EMMA Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment Cambridge, MA [etc.], Harvard University Press, 2002. (ISBN: 0674008375) Paperback , 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches. Clean Copy,tight spine, not rice-clipped or remaindered. beautiful copy. From The New Yorker This landmark work revisits the intellectual ferment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries--a time when the brightest minds all talked like econ majors. Rothschild has delved through the pamphlets and tracts of the era--on everything from voting procedures to the suet trade--but the book is organized around the two greatest economic thinkers of the Enlightenment: Adam Smith and the Marquis de Condorcet. She dismantles, with quiet authority, the stereotype of the Enlightenment as a period dominated by chilly rationalists. In emphasizing the role of emotion in human life, the founders of modern economics were actually in advance of their successors. Copyright 2005 The New Yorker --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review A powerful and original reconsideration of the thinking of Smith and Condorcet. Delightfully fresh, sensitive, sensible and wide-ranging. A wonderfully evocative, even lyrical book. This is a scholarly achievement of a very high order. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in a range of fields within the humanities and social sciences, who will be obliged in reading it to think again about many conventional views within their disciplines. But it should also reach a broader audience among all those concerned with how we should think about economics and politics in a new century full of uncertainties and insecurities. --Keith Baker, Stanford University (20010708) We have all read Adam Smith and we all think we know him well. But this text, in its emphasis on the period after 1776 and its coverage of related works from other nations, is full of revelations and delicious quotes from unstudied sources. --David S. Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (20010604) Rothschild's richly complex and deeply informed account of the writings of Adam Smith and of the Marquis du Condorcet locates them more closely in their own time and, by so doing, changes their significance for us today. The monolithic view of the cold, inhuman Enlightenment, propagated by the early nineteenth-century Romantics, is undercut by close analysis and understanding of the political and social contexts. The book is a triumph of scholarship and reinterpretation, as well as a model of expository prose. --Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University (20010705) An elegant, sympathetic and original re-envisioning of the Enlightenment's two greatest economic theorists with significant implications for our own economic politics today. --Linda Colley, London School of Economics (20010622) In her readable as well as scholarly book, Economic Sentiments, [Rothschild] links [Adam] Smith with the French philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet, another thinker seen today as an emblem of "cold hard and rational enlightenment" but in reality interested, like Smith, "in economic life as a process of discussion, and as a process of emancipation," in which "one's freedom to buy or sell or lend or travel or work is difficult to distinguish from the rest of one's freedom." This larger picture, Rothschild thinks, is what was lost as economics developed along with the society it analyzed, and what she hopes to restore. --Paul Mattick (New York Times Book Review 20011220) , Very Good. USD 22.99 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2029] Book number: 014301 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.

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	ALTMAN, DANIEL Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy United States, September 2008, Picador, 2008. (ISBN: 031242809X) Paperback , 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches. Altman's overview of the world's economic workings is useful and informative, though surprisingly dutiful considering the author's promise of a "whirlwind tour." Moving briskly between topics--pegged to an hour-by-hour timeline gimmick--he discusses many concepts: exchange rates, trade deficits, international deals, currency markets, corruption, financial derivatives, technological innovation, the importance of oil. While addressing the outsized role of the U.S. Altman offers valuable glimpses of key foreign economies and leaves us with a solid understanding of how they fit into "the world trading system." "If you want to cope with connectedness," journalist Altman writes, "you have to be as connected as you can--in other words, you have to pay attention to what's happening in the rest of the world." Granted, anyone who's already paying attention will find much of the book's information somewhat remedial. And Altman's attitude toward globalization is so studiously evenhanded and argument-free that the reader may long for the glossy zeal of an advocate like Thomas Friedman or a detractor like Lou Dobbs. Still, as global macroeconomic primers go, this is a quick read that reminds us that we're all in this together--and that many of us have an awful lot to learn to keep up with the global economy. Very Good. USD 11.99 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1058] Book number: 021072 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	JACOBS, JANE The Nature of Economies Vintage, 2001. (ISBN: 0679310967) Paperback , 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches. Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker, Jane Jacobs shows us that by looking to nature, we can develop economies that are both efficient and ecologically friendly. Very Good. USD 9.99 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 882] Book number: 019315 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	MCLELLAN, DAVID Marx [London], Fontana Press, 1975. (ISBN: 000633833X) Paperback , 18 cm. Would be very good or like-new, but the removal of a price tag from the back has lifted some colour away, too. Product Description Since his death in 1883, Marx has been revised, distorted and rediscovered. This work provides a survey of Marx's life and his contributions to the varied fields of history, economics and politics. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Used - Good. USD 6.99 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 617] Book number: 021067 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.
	ROTHSCHILD, EMMA Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment Cambridge, MA [etc.], Harvard University Press, 2002. (ISBN: 0674008375) Paperback , 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches. Clean Copy,tight spine, not rice-clipped or remaindered. beautiful copy. From The New Yorker This landmark work revisits the intellectual ferment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries--a time when the brightest minds all talked like econ majors. Rothschild has delved through the pamphlets and tracts of the era--on everything from voting procedures to the suet trade--but the book is organized around the two greatest economic thinkers of the Enlightenment: Adam Smith and the Marquis de Condorcet. She dismantles, with quiet authority, the stereotype of the Enlightenment as a period dominated by chilly rationalists. In emphasizing the role of emotion in human life, the founders of modern economics were actually in advance of their successors. Copyright 2005 The New Yorker --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review A powerful and original reconsideration of the thinking of Smith and Condorcet. Delightfully fresh, sensitive, sensible and wide-ranging. A wonderfully evocative, even lyrical book. This is a scholarly achievement of a very high order. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in a range of fields within the humanities and social sciences, who will be obliged in reading it to think again about many conventional views within their disciplines. But it should also reach a broader audience among all those concerned with how we should think about economics and politics in a new century full of uncertainties and insecurities. --Keith Baker, Stanford University (20010708) We have all read Adam Smith and we all think we know him well. But this text, in its emphasis on the period after 1776 and its coverage of related works from other nations, is full of revelations and delicious quotes from unstudied sources. --David S. Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (20010604) Rothschild's richly complex and deeply informed account of the writings of Adam Smith and of the Marquis du Condorcet locates them more closely in their own time and, by so doing, changes their significance for us today. The monolithic view of the cold, inhuman Enlightenment, propagated by the early nineteenth-century Romantics, is undercut by close analysis and understanding of the political and social contexts. The book is a triumph of scholarship and reinterpretation, as well as a model of expository prose. --Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University (20010705) An elegant, sympathetic and original re-envisioning of the Enlightenment's two greatest economic theorists with significant implications for our own economic politics today. --Linda Colley, London School of Economics (20010622) In her readable as well as scholarly book, Economic Sentiments, [Rothschild] links [Adam] Smith with the French philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet, another thinker seen today as an emblem of "cold hard and rational enlightenment" but in reality interested, like Smith, "in economic life as a process of discussion, and as a process of emancipation," in which "one's freedom to buy or sell or lend or travel or work is difficult to distinguish from the rest of one's freedom." This larger picture, Rothschild thinks, is what was lost as economics developed along with the society it analyzed, and what she hopes to restore. --Paul Mattick (New York Times Book Review 20011220) , Very Good. USD 22.99 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2029] Book number: 014301 Click here to order or inquire at The Recycled Book Shop.