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Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
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Author: Greg Ip (The Economist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Palast, an investigative reporter, spent five years trying to find out what is really going on in politics and big business. In this volume he reveals what PR companies, lobbyists...
The Undercover Economist
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station Why is it impossible to...
Economics: The Economist Guide
Economics. Sometimes called the "dismal science", it's a discipline and topic that's often seen as dull; mysterious at best. And yet it's crucial to understanding the world we live in...
Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century
In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The...
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
A renowned complexity scientist promotes a revolution to make economic predictions more scientific, allowing us to build a better world We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating...
What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and
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The book titled What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and by the author Robert Barry Carson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Airport Economist
Did you know that Australia is helping Singapore 'be creative' to address its imbalance of ballet dancers to engineers and that there is a Transylvanian Cricket Club full of Aussies...
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Author: Angus Deaton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling...
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
A million readers bought THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news....
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and...
The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
Author: Daniel Franklin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture
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In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...
Government Influence And The Location Of Economic Activity
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Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhere does industry locate, and who truly decides? Government Influence and the Location of Economic Activity presents...
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic
A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great...
The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
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Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
Decent Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (TPB) (Group)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or...
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is...
Dear Undercover Economist: The very best letters from the Dear
Are there tangible benefits in flossing Is it wrong to fake orgasms What does the perfect online dating ad look like Should we bother doing the ironing Is it really...
An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field "Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sorts...
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Great Economists Before Keynes: An Introduction To The Lives & Works Of One Hundred Great Economists Of The Past
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Author: Mark BlaugBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvester Press International, Inc., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the intellectual lineage of economic thought preceding the Keynesian revolution. It...
After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future
Author: Vince Cable Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Vince Cable's bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should...
The Tyranny of Experts (Revised): Economists, Dictators, and the
In The Tyranny of Experts , renowned economist William Easterly uncovers our failing efforts to fight global poverty. The expert approved, top-down approach to development has not only made little...
A Defence of Economic Rationalism
This book provides a defence of the economic rationalist vision, bringing together prominent economic rationalists and providing them with an opportunity to defend their world-view over a range of issues.
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for
US President Donald Trump has long complained that the nation's $3 trillion trade in goods deficit - when a country's imports exceed its exports - are evidence of global partners...
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists
From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
The renowned behavioural economist exposes the irrational tendencies in our thinking and illuminates the way to make clear, logical decisions Why are we more likely to forgo the opportunity to...
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for your balance-sheet? In 2001...
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political
Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...