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The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction

By Adam Szirmai (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Gangs of America; The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

By Ted Nace

The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

By Nick Robins

The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy

By D. D. Raphael (Emeritus, Imperial College, London)

Corporate Eponymy: Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European and Asian Businesses

By Adrian Room

Innovation: A Very Short Introduction

By Mark Dodgson (Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland Business School), David Gann (Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London)

Alternatives to Global Capitalism: Drawn from Biblical History, Designed for Political Action

By Ulrich Duchrow

The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice

By Daniel Finn (Saint John's University, Minnesota)

Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital

By Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

By Joyce Appleby (UCLA)

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

By Jerry Z. Muller

Debt and Delusion: Central Bank Follies That Threaten Economic Disaster

By Peter Warburton

Packaging Design: Smith and Milton (Issues in design)

By Milton, Howard

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present

By Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley)

George Soros on Globalization

By George Soros

Saving the Text: Literature, Derrida, Philosophy

By Geoffrey H. Hartman

Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

By Carlo M. Cipolla

Econ-Art: Divorcing Art From Science in Modern Economics

By Rick Szostak

The Bourgeois Virtues - Ethics for an Age of Commerce

By Deirdre N Mccloskey

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

By Deirdre N. McCloskey

Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy

By John McMurtry

Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By Tomas Sedlacek

Trust: The New Foundations of Global Prosperity

By Francis Fukuyama

After Capitalism: Rethinking Economic Relationships

Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience

By Archie B. Carroll (University of Georgia), Kenneth J. Lipartito (Florida International University), James E. Post (Boston University), Patricia H. Werhane (DePaul University, Chicago), Kenneth E. Goodpaster (University of St Thomas, Minnesota)

The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters

By Diane Coyle

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

By Robert William Fogel

The End of Ethics and A Way Back: How To Fix A Fundamentally Broken Global Financial System

By TR Malloch

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets : Why Some Nations Are Rich But Most Remain Poor

By J. A Kay