Few works of economic and political analysis have exerted a more profound influence on European, American and latterly world economic and social policy than Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The version of Adam Smith's economic and social philosophy which has been invoked by proponents such as those in the Adam Smith Institute has often not been the product of a reading of the whole of the Wealth of Nations, but has rested instead on acceptance of the selective reading of parts of the book developed by nineteenth-century market liberals.

Climate change and its mitigation has become one of the most pressing challenges facing our societies. Shocks and phenomena related to climate change cause important economic losses due to damages to property infrastructure, disruptions to supply chains, lower productivity, and migration. Climate Economics and Finance offers a comprehensive analysis of how climate change impacts the economy and financial systems.

While large literatures have separately examined the history of the environmental movement, government planning, and modern economics, Pricing the Priceless triangulates on all three. Offering the first book-length study of the history of modern environmental economics, it uncovers the unlikely role economists played in developing tools and instruments in support of environmental preservation. While economists were, and still are, seen as scientists who argue in favour of extracting natural resources, H.

La ciudad es uno de los libros que más ha contribuido en el cómic y la novela gráfica del siglo XX. Esta novela, publicada en 1925, fue realizada con grabados en madera y ha sido considerada por artistas como Will Eisner una obra maestra absoluta del arte del pasado siglo. Masereel representa escenas de la vida cotidiana de una ciudad enmohecida por el hollín de las fábricas y la oscuridad de la pobreza. Este ambiente contrasta con el brillo y la majestuosidad de las zonas ricas de la misma urbe.