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  • Ethics of the Fantastic Four
    Mark D. White
    Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm: four adventurers transformed by a cosmic accident into Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing, together known as Marvel Comics’ first family, the Fantastic Four. From their first appearance in 1961, these four heroes became not only the foundation of the Marvel Universe in the comics but also t...
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    13,95 €

  • A Philosopher Reads...Marvel Comics’ Daredevil
    Mark D. White
    Matthew Murdock is a man of contrasts. He was raised in poverty and grew up to become a lawyer, thanks to his single father, a boxer and part-time mob enforcer who pushed his son to study rather than fight. Blinded by a freak accident that also heightened his other senses, Matt acquired a range and depth of perception that sighted people can only dream of. Together with fightin...
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    13,26 €

  • A Philosopher Reads...Marvel Comics’ Thor
    Mark D. White
    We all know the Mighty Thor: Prince of Asgard, son of Odin the AllFather, and God of Thunder. He has long been one of the few worthy to wield the mystic hammer Mjolnir... until, one day, he is not. Soon, a new Thor emerges, a woman who commands the thunder and the hammer in ways all her own. She is none other than Jane Foster, who shares a long history with the Odinson, and as ...
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    12,22 €

  • The Decline of the Individual
    Mark D. White / Mark DWhite
    This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, technology, economics, philosophy, politics, and law, White explains how and why the individual has been devalued in the eyes of scholars, government leaders, and the public. He no...
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    39,83 €

  • The Illusion of Well-Being
    Mark D. White
    The use of measures of economic output to guide policymaking has been criticized for decades because of their weak ties to human well-being. Recently, many scholars and politicians have called for measures of happiness or subjective well-being to be used to guide policy in people’s true interests.In The Illusion of Well-Being, Mark D. White explains why using happiness as a too...
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    48,18 €

  • Economics & The Virtues
    Jennifer A. Baker / Mark D. White
    While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited discussions of the importance of ethics to economics, including growing calls for a new approach to ...
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    167,21 €

  • Law and Social Economics
    Mark D. White
    This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues. Law is a social enterprise concerned with values such as justice, dignity, and equality, as well as efficiency - which is the same way that social economists conceive of ...
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    132,85 €

  • The Illusion of Well-Being
    Mark D. White
    The use of measures of economic output to guide policymaking has been criticized for decades because of their weak ties to human well-being. Recently, many scholars and politicians have called for measures of happiness or subjective well-being to be used t ...
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    134,26 €

  • The Illusion of Well-Being
    Mark D. White
    The use of measures of economic output to guide policymaking has been criticized for decades because of their weak ties to human well-being. Recently, many scholars and politicians have called for measures of happiness or subjective well-being to be used to guide policy in people’s true interests.In The Illusion of Well-Being, Mark D. White explains why using happiness as a too...
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    132,91 €

  • The Manipulation of Choice
    Mark D. White
    Dr. Mark D. White explains the informational, ethical, and practical problems faced by libertarian paternalism and ’nudges,’ by which the government subtly influences people’s choices for their own good, in his exciting new volume The Manipulation of Choic ...
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    134,34 €

  • The Manipulation of Choice
    Mark D. White
    Dr. Mark D. White explains the informational, ethical, and practical problems faced by libertarian paternalism and ’nudges,’ by which the government subtly influences people’s choices for their own good, in his exciting new volume The Manipulation of Choic ...
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    132,98 €

  • Retributivism
    Mark D. White
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    265,25 €

  • Accepting the Invisible Hand
    Mark D. White
    Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in economics, philosophy, and law. He has authored dozens of journal articles and book chapters in the intersections between these fields, and has edited or co-edited a number of books on the subjects, including Ethics and E...
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    65,31 €

  • Economics and the Mind
    Barbara Montero / Mark D. White
    Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in the economics discourse.  Choice, while not always a conscious or rational process, is held to involve beliefs, desires, intentions and arguably even free will. Actions are often opposed to mere bodily movements, with the for...
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    104,41 €

  • Economics and the Mind
    Barbara Montero / Mark D. White
    This volume brings economists and philosophers of the mind together to explore the intersection of their disciplines. ...
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    301,91 €