Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. No. 7 in the Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology series Two papers. One by Jack Goody on the use of bridewealth and dowry in Africa and Eurasia. The other by Dr Tambiah on the same institutions but in India, Ceylong..... More
Anchor Books, 2005. Paperback. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Hong Kong the Super Paradox cuts into the cold reality of post-colonial Hong Kong, which demonstrates a paradoxical normalcy in its internal politics belying all pre-1997 prophecies of doom, and offers plausible reasons for the wide discrepancy between..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. “This work is a profound and fundamental contribution to the issues addressed.”—Sociology “Vital to an understanding of peasant politics.”—Library Journal James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book analyzes the changes in property rights in contemporary China in light of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John Bogle, who as founder and former chief executive of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition (presumed), First Printing (stated). Hardcover. The third and final of Galbraith's books on economics, the other two being The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. More
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Letiche, now in his nineties, provides an intriguing look at the changes that have occurred during his lifetime. Following his Kiev childhood and formative years in Depression-era Montreal, he completed a doctorate at the University of Chicago and took up a Rockefeller..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. This 1985 book examines one of the driving forces of the historical period before the Industrial Revolution: the long chain of oceanic trade which stretched from the South China Sea to the eastern Mediterranean. It also looks at the natural complement of the..... More
New York: A Doubleday Anchor Original/Anchor Books, 1968. Robert Leydenfrost (cover design). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Rare edition. No. A605 Edited by George Dalton Contains some of the most significant essay by the Late Karl Polanyi, an economist whose writings are one of the influential factors in the..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This study of modern China was completed during the twentieth anniversary year of the People's Republic. It embodies the results of long research checked by the personal experience gained in the course of extensive travel between 1958 and 1966..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1995. First Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. A masterful analysis that will redefine the workings of the global economy for years to come. Nation states are dinosaurs waiting to die. Kenichi Ohmae, world-renowned business strategist, argues that not only have they lost their ability..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. This book explains the paradox that China's rapid economic growth for the past twenty years has taken place in a communist institutional context and under the firm rule of the party-state. In contrast to the dominant explanations of the "Chinese miracle" that..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Printing. Trade Paperback. A collection of essays in Chinese and English on the topics of history, economic culture, political economy, economic sociology, economic geography, ideology. More
Hong Kong: Longman, 1993. First Edition. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu..... More
London: Frances Pinter (Publishers), 1986. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. More
Sydney: Wild Peony Pty Ltd, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Part of the University of Sydney East Asian Series (No. 10). More
London: Oneworld Publications, 2015. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. First English Edition. Softcover. Part of the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology series (Vol. 18) Structural causality in economics and some ideas concerning Marxism and anthropology. Concept of social and economic formation. The concept of a tribe. Marx's thinking on primitive society. An attempt..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Paperback. In the midst of global recession, angry citizens and media pundits often offer simplistic theories about how bad decisions lead to crises. Many economists, however, base their analyses on rational choice theory, which assumes that decisions are made by well-informed, intelligent people who..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Abner Graboff (jacket design). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1787, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote "The Federalist" to defend and rally support for the ratification of the Constitution. In "Philosophy, 'The Federalist', and the Constitution", Morton White presents a comprehensive..... More
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