This work gives guidance to help managers navigate the customs and practices that support Chinese businesses. It offers suggestions for resolving rifts between Eastern and Western ways of doing bus…
Offers an economist's view of everyday human behavior, and examines surprising situations from everyday life, such as why is movie theater popcorn so expensive, and why do seatbelts cause more acci…
The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the af…
The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a ps…
"Ten years ago, Michael J. Weiss published his book The Clustering of America, in which he presented a totally new way of viewing the nation: not as fifty states but rather as forty neighborhood ty…
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies hum…
Using the proflierating volume of social science data and concepts on the subject, this book attempts to provide an alternative interpretation of the business conduct of the ethnic Chinese of East …
Our aim in writing this book is simply to introduce students to the fascinating and rewarding method of economic inquiry; but we have carried out that purpose in ways different from those used by o…
In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Donald McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. I…
This engaging and intelligent book provides an accessible, down to earth assessment of the role of formalism and rigour in economics.Professor Mayer argues that there is room in economics for both …