Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: minds, series, money, interest, theory, employment, general
Number of Pages: 403
Published: 1997-05
List price: $16.98
ISBN-10: 1573921394
ISBN-13: 9781573921398

Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that dramatically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes critiqued the laissez faire policies of the day, particularly the proposition that a normally functioning market economy will bring full employment. Keynes’ forward-looking work transformed economics from merely a descriptive and analytic discipline to one that is policy-oriented. For Keynes, enlightened government intervention in

Author: Alfred Marshall
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: series, minds, economics, principles
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 1997-05
List price: $16.98
ISBN-10: 1573921408
ISBN-13: 9781573921404

British economist Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was one of the founders of the ’neoclassical’ school in which economists studied both wealth and human behaviour to understand why we make the choices we do. First published in 1890, "Principles of Economics" stands as Marshall’s most influential work. This abridged edition offers a general introduction to the study of economics, dealing mainly with normal conditions of industry, employment, and wages. It begins by isolating the primary relations of supply, demand, and price in regard to a particular commodity. Following his study

Author: Robert Zubrin
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: breaking, free, oil, terror, war, victory, winning, energy
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-11-10
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1591025915
ISBN-13: 9781591025917

In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction. Debunking the false solutions and myths that have deterred us from taking

Author: Edmund D. Cohen
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: believer, bible, mind
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1988-09
List price: $32.98
ISBN-10: 0879754958
ISBN-13: 9780879754952

Cohen sees much harm arising from the huge explosion of the Christian Right during the last two decades. He demonstrates how the indoctrination received in these churches undermines the mental health of individuals, causing widespread suffering, due to the victims’ reluctance to speak out. He also shows how this indoctrination makes bible-believers into unwitting supporters of far-right political causes they would otherwise reject.Beginning in 1984, Cohen conducted a videotape monitoring of Pat Robertson. In 1987, he joined forces with Gerard Thomas Straub (a former producer of the 700 C

Authors:Neil Vidmar, Valerie P. Hans,
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: verdict, juries, american
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $32.98
ISBN-10: 1591025885
ISBN-13: 9781591025887

Although the right to trial by jury is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, in recent years both criminal and civil juries have been criticized as incompetent, biased, and irresponsible. For example, the O.J. Simpson criminal jury’s verdict produced a racial divide in opinions about that trial. And many Americans still hold strong views about the jury that awarded millions of dollars to a woman who spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee on herself. It’s said that there are "judicial hellholes" where local juries provide "jackpot justice" in medical malpractice and pr

Author: Mark Goldman
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: york, present, new, buffalo, edge, city
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2007-03-20
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 1591024579
ISBN-13: 9781591024576

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the city of Buffalo, New York, looked toward a future of great promise. During this era, the city was the host of a prestigious world’s fair, The Pan American Exposition, and an industrial behemoth, the Lackawanna Steel Company, had just opened its doors. Buffalonians at this time had every reason to believe that these massive and impressive signs of progress augured well for the balance of the century. One hundred years later, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Buffalo is on the verge of bankruptcy, and a new generation of citizens l

Author: Thomas S. Weinberg
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: amp, submission, studies, dominance
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1995-07
List price: $24.98
ISBN-10: 087975978X
ISBN-13: 9780879759780

The contributors to this revised classic incorporate autobiographical and firsthand accounts to emphasise the complexity and symbolic nature of this ’velvet underground’ of human sexuality. A variety of sub-worlds and identities are explored: the professional dominatrix; prostitution and S heterosexual, gay, and lesbian S the role of pain and fantasy; and organised S&M groups. Recent trends such as non-mainstream body modification are discussed, along with the increasing integration of S&M themes in areas of popular culture such as the arts, literature, mass media, and fa