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Across The Continent - A Summer's Journey To The Rocky ...

Across The Continent - A Summer's Journey To The Rocky ...

Samuel Bowles,

It contains details of Samuel Bowles’s travels through North America and his experiences along the way. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of America.
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for ...

The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for ...

Samuel Bowles

Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit.
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution

Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution

Samuel Bowles

In this novel introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings of the institutions of capitalist economies, and the ...
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

Samuel Bowles

In A Cooperative Species, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and ...
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the ...

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the ...

Samuel Bowles

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory.
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the ...

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the ...

Samuel Bowles

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory.
The Army of Northern Virginia: Organization, Strength, ...

The Army of Northern Virginia: Organization, Strength, ...

Darrell L. Collins

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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Dedications, 1827-1927: ...

Curtis's Botanical Magazine Dedications, 1827-1927: ...

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Courtesy of E. A. Bowles, Esq. EDWARD AUGUSTUS BOWLES, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., V.M.H. GARDENER, INVESTIGATOR, AND AUTHOR EDWARD AUGUSTUS BOWLES (1865- ) Edward Augustus Bowles was born. TO WHOM VOLUME CLI.
Poverty Traps

Poverty Traps

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Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, Karla Hoff. Poverty Traps INTRODUCTION Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff THERE.
Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia, 1733-1815

Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia, 1733-1815

Kathleen Booth Williams

John BOWLES and Mary Redford, dau. of William Redford, deceased. Sur. John Cannon. Elizabeth Bowles makes affadavit that John, 21 years old last May, is son of Benjamin Bowles, deceased, p 13 20 August 1810. John BOWLES, Jr. and  ...
Farmers' Elevator Guide

Farmers' Elevator Guide

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Twelve years ago the Bowles Company was organized by Mr. John P. Bowles, its president and general manager. Today they ... Mr. Jom P. Bowles started in the commission business 30 years ago at a. salary of $40 a. month. His unlimited ...
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

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The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles

The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles

George Spring Merriam

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims ...

Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims ...

Gary B. Mills

c o 6 d Claimant County State u O Year Status Bowen, John B. Jefferson MS 7049 5 1975 A Bowen, Joseph, est. of ... 7 1877 A Bowles, Green, est. of Warren MS 6984 — 3 1873 A Bowles, J. H. Goochland VA 5928 30 1 1871 D Bowles, Mary ...
The Descendents [sic] of Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress ...

The Descendents [sic] of Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress ...

Bernard W. Cruse

Flora Rosetta Ritchie (Jul 13, 1870 - Aug 1, 1956) m Sep 25, 1898 William Edward Bowles (Jul 27, 1872 - May 28, 1952) (1) Ruth Ritchie Bowles (Dec 15, 1899 - May 29, 1975) Editor's Note: Ruth Ritchie Bowles is the author of the ...
After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year ...

After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year ...

Samuel Bowles

This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity.
Recasting egalitarianism: new rules for communities, states ...

Recasting egalitarianism: new rules for communities, states ...

Samuel Bowles

The lead essay in the book lays out the underlying logic of this proposal in some detail. This is followed by responses by critics and supporters.
Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability and ...

Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability and ...

Samuel Bowles

This book asks whether a modern, efficient economy can be rendered democratically accountable, and, if so, what strategic changes might be required to regulate the market- based interaction of economic agents.
My Garden in Autumn and Winter

My Garden in Autumn and Winter

E. A. Bowles

The final volume in Bowles's survey of his garden through the year has always been the most elusive in the antiquarian book market.
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the ...

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the ...

Samuel Bowles

A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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Samuel J Flke. Joseph J Pike, John J KuBero. Samuel M Pike. Sam or 1 M Poast. Samuel PrrL widow of James. . Paidlev ... Henry, sr McKnnkev, I>avid Miller, Samuel P Miller, Samuel J Miller, Xebemiah Meyers, Peter C Maust. Samuel A ...
Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley:

Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley:

David Bowles

Author David Bowles explores these and more of the most harrowing ghost stories from Fort Brown to Fort Ringgold and all the haunted hotels, chapels and ruins in between.
Understanding capitalism: competition, command, and change

Understanding capitalism: competition, command, and change

Samuel Bowles

Understanding Capitalism, Third Edition is an economics textbook offeringan introduction to political economy, with extensive attention to the exerciseof power in society and the historical evolution of economicinstitutions.
Thoughts on the Origin and Formation of Political ...

Thoughts on the Origin and Formation of Political ...

John BOWLES (Barrister)

John BOWLES (Barrister). - l 9 ] * ' they meant' to gild the pill, which Otherwise they feared would not be swallowed by the French People; and they flattered themselves, that, by presenting both the Decree and the Constitution at the same time, ...
The Academy

The Academy

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Edited by J. Bowles Daly, LL.D. (Sonnenschein.) Da. Bowles Daly had a great subject- Dr. iladden's three volumes, published forty-five years ago, and the vast mass of his unpublished MSS., purchased by Messrs. Sonnenschein, were a mine ...
Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas

Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas

David Bowles

Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice.
The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We

The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We

D. Bowles

Through a lens of sustainability this book examines how organisations can explore a new business culture today. Drawing from real-life examples and new ideas Bowles and Cooper discuss how organisations can move from 'me' to 'we'.

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