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The Economic Organization of the Household

Author: W.Keith Bryant, Cathleen D. Zick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN10: 0521805279 (1 ed) Paperback
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World Consumption Economics

Author: Chen Dongling
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2000. ISBN10: 9810238479 Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Economics of Risk and Time

Author: Christian Gollier
Publisher: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN10: 0262572249 Paperback
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Advances in Household Economics, Consumer Behaviour and Economic Policy

Author: Tran Van Hoa
Publisher: Ashgate, 2005. ISBN10: 0754643999 Hardback
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The Economics of Abundance (Gower Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series)

Author: Wolfgang Hoeschele
Publisher: Gower, 2010. ISBN10: 0566089408 Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality (Family & Public Policy)

Author: Jerry Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN10: 0674018397 (1 ed) Paperback
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Consumer Theory (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series)

Author: Kelvin Lancaster (Ed.)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998. ISBN10: 1852789565 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things

Author: Scott Lash, Celia Lury
Publisher: Polity Press, 2007. ISBN10: 0745624839 Paperback
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Author: Richard Layard
Publisher: Penguin, 2011. ISBN10: 0241952794 (2 ed) Paperback
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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy (Oxford Handbooks in Economics)

Author: Jayson L. Lusk, Jutta Roosen, Jason Shogren (Eds.)
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011. ISBN10: 0199569444 Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation (Science in Society Series)

Author: Lyla Mehta (Ed.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2010. ISBN10: 1844075427 Paperback
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The Economics of Human Systems Integration: Valuation of Investments in People's Training and Education, Safety and Health, and Work Productivity

Author: William B. Rouse
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN10: 0470486767 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Books on Specific topics

Social and Political Economy of the Household

Author: Michael Anderson, Frank Bechhofer, Jonathan Gershu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN10: 0198279353 Paperback
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Consequences of Creating a Market Economy: Evidence from Household Surveys in Central Asia

Author: Kathryn Anderson, Richard Pomfret
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003. ISBN10: 1843761696 Hardback
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Saving and the Accumulation of Wealth: Essays on Italian Household and Government Saving Behavior

Author: Albert Ando, Luigi Guiso, Ignazio Visco (Eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN10: 0521452082 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Mortgage Markets Worldwide (Real Estate Issues)

Author: Danny BenShahar, Charles Leung, SeowEng Ong
Publisher: WileyBlackwell, 2008. ISBN10: 1405132108 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Author: Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi (Eds.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2008. ISBN10: 0415443377 (1 ed) Hardback Library (>£50)
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Econometrics, Statistics and Computational Approaches in Food and Health Sciences

Author: Alok Bhargava
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2007. ISBN10: 9812568417 (1 ed) Hardback
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The Measurement of Household Welfare

Author: R. W. Blundell, Ian Preston, Ian Walker (Eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN10: 0521451957 Hardback
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Making the Most of the Water We Have: The Soft Path Approach to Water Management

Author: David B. Brooks, Oliver M. Brandes, Stephen Gurman (Eds.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2011. ISBN10: 1849713081 Paperback
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Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development

Author: Sylvia Chant, Cathy McIlwaine
Publisher: Pluto Press Ltd, 1995. ISBN10: 0745309453 Paperback
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The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications

Author: Edited by Flavio Comim, Mozaffar Qizilbash, Sabina Alkire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN10: 0521862876 (1 ed) Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Theory of the Individual in Economics

Author: John Davis
Publisher: Routledge, 2003. ISBN10: 0415202205 Paperback
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Understanding Consumption

Author: Angus Deaton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN10: 0198288247 Paperback Readings
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Economics and Consumer Behavior

Author: Angus Deaton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN10: 0521296765 Paperback Readings
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Women and the Distribution of Wealth: Feminist Economics

Author: Carmen Diane Deere, Cheryl R. Doss (Eds.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2007. ISBN10: 0415420059 (1 ed) Paperback
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MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON CHOICE AND DECISION MAKING

Author: John Malcolm Dowling, Yap Chin-Fang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2007. ISBN10: 9812701435 Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Elgar Companion to Consumer Research and Economic Psychology

Author: Peter E. Earl, Simon Kemp
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002. ISBN10: 1840649739 Paperback
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The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth: Informal Order Around the Hearth

Author: Robert C. Ellickson
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN10: 0691134421 Hardback
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Consumption in the Age of Affluence: The World of Food

Author: Ben Fine, Michael Heasman, Judith Wright
Publisher: Routledge, 1995. ISBN10: 0415135796 Paperback
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The World of Consumption

Author: Ben Fine
Publisher: Routledge, 2002. ISBN10: 0415279453 (2 ed) Paperback
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Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess

Author: R. H. Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN10: 0691070113 Paperback
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Intersubjectivity in Economics Agents and Structures

Author: Edward Fullbrook
Publisher: Routledge, 2001. ISBN10: 041526698X Paperback
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Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks

Author: Sanjeev Goyal
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN10: 0691141185 Paperback
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Public Finance and Public Policy

Author: Jonathan Gruber
Publisher: Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S., 2005. ISBN10: 0716786559 (1 ed) Paperback Library (>£50)
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Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text

Author: Stephen Gudeman, Alberto Rivera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN10: 0521387450 Paperback
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Sustainable Consumer Services: Business Solutions for Household Markets

Author: Minna Halme
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2005. ISBN10: 1844072096 Hardback
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Economic Sociology

Author: Jeff Hass
Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 2006. ISBN10: 0415392225 (1 ed) Paperback
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Theory of Choice

Author: Shaun Hargreave Heap
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 1992. ISBN10: 0631183221 Paperback Readings
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Making Social Policy Work (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy)

Author: John Hills, Julian Le Grand, David Piachaud (Eds.)
Publisher: Policy Press, 2007. ISBN10: 1861349572 (1 ed) Paperback
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Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts (Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy)

Author: Michael Hutter, David Throsby (Eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN10: 052186223X (1 ed) Hardback Readings Library (>£50)
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Retail Trading in Britain 1850-1950: A Study of Trends in Retailing with Special Reference to the Development of Co-operative, Multiple Shop and Department Store Methods of Trading

Author: James B. Jefferys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN10: 1107602734 Paperback
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Companion Site: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6574671/Retail%20Tradin

The Distribution of Consumer Goods: A Factual Study of Methods and Costs in the United Kingdom in 1938

Author: James B. Jefferys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN10: 1107602742 Paperback
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The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives

Author: Stephen P. Jenkins, Arie Kapteyn, Bernard M. S. van Praag (Eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN10: 0521168422 Paperback
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Women Workers in Industrialising Asia

Author: Amarjit Kaur
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN10: 0333962931 Hardback
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Poverty Strategies in Asia: A Growth Plus Approach

Author: Halder A. Khan, John Weiss (Eds.)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006. ISBN10: 1845429281 (1 ed) Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Economics of Household Behaviour

Author: Peter Kooreman, Sophia Wunderink
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. ISBN10: 0333597362 Paperback
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Environment, Information and Consumer Behaviour

Author: Signe Krarup, Clifford S. Russell (Eds.)
Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2005. ISBN10: 184542011X Hardback Library (>£50)
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Mortgage Market Economics

Author: David Leece
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. ISBN10: 1405114614 Paperback
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Contesting Neoliberalism

Author: Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, Eric S. Sheppard (Eds.)
Publisher: Guilford Press, 2007. ISBN10: 1593853203 (1 ed) Paperback
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Companion Site: http://www.guilford.com/excerpts/leitner.pdf

Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation

Author: George Loewenstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA, 2002. ISBN10: 0199257078 (1 ed) Hardback Library (>£50)
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Migrant Labor Remittances in South Asia

Author: Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Richard Adams, Reena Aggrawal
Publisher: World Bank, 2005. ISBN10: 082136183X Paperback
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Economic Policy: No. 41 (Economic Policy)

Author: Georges De Menil, Richard Portes, HansWerner Sinn, Richard Baldwin, Giuseppe Bertola, Paul Seabright (Eds.)
Publisher: WileyBlackwell, 2005. ISBN10: 1405126868 Paperback
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The Economics of Agricultural Development

Author: George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, William A. Masters
Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 2006. ISBN10: 0415770467 (1 ed) Paperback
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Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities

Author: Tim O'Riordan, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN10: 0521890527 Paperback
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Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare

Author: Martin Powell (Ed.)
Publisher: Policy Press, 2007. ISBN10: 1861347596 (1 ed) Paperback
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The Ecological Economics of Consumption

Author: Lucia A. Reisch, Inge Ropke (Eds.)
Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2004. ISBN10: 1843765128 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Work, Leisure and the Environment: The Vicious Circle of Overwork and Over Consumption

Author: Tim Robinson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006. ISBN10: 1847201032 (1 ed) Hardback
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The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution

Author: Richard Robison, David Goodman
Publisher: Routledge, 1996. ISBN10: 0415113369 Paperback
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Households as Corporate Firms: An Analysis of Household Finance Using Integrated Household Surveys and Corporate Financial Accounting (Econometric Society Monographs)

Author: Krislert Samphantharak, Robert M. Townsend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN10: 0521124166 Paperback
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Companion Site: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2703693/?site_locale=en_GB

International Consumption Comparisons: OECD Versus LDC

Author: E.Antony Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2003. ISBN10: 9810240058 Hardback Library (>£50)
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Creating and Transforming Households

Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN10: 0521427134 Paperback Readings
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Sustainable Consumption: The Implications of Changing Infrastructures of Provision

Author: Dale Southerton, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet
Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2004. ISBN10: 1843763303 Hardback
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The World Food Economy

Author: Douglas Southgate, Douglas H. Graham, Luther Tweeten
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. ISBN10: 1405105976 (1 ed) Paperback
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Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy: A Gendered Post Keynesian-institutional Analysis

Author: Zdravka Todorova
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009. ISBN10: 184720953X Hardback Library (>£50)
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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

Author: Viviana A. Zelizer
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN10: 0691048215 Paperback
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