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To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond. These extreme economies illustrate the forces that test human resilience, drive societies to failure, and promise to shape our collective future. Reviving a foundational idea from the medical sciences, Extreme Economies turns the logic of modern economics on its head by arguing that these outlier...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, written by legendary author John Maynard Keynes is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This masterpiece was published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the 'Keynesian Revolution', in the way economists thought-especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore...
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Originally published in 1890, Principles of Economics was the first text to bring together the theories of supply and demand, marginal utility, and cost of production into a coherent whole. It introduced a number of new concepts which have formed the building blocks of modern microeconomics and underpin modern-day business strategy. This re-issued classic contains a new introduction by Professor Peter Groenewegen.
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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It's the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation, with more than 7 million books sold in 40 languages,...
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask--but Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life--from cheating and crime to sports and child...
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Gloria is one of the 700,000 Spanish people who have left Spain since the economic crisis started. The film portraits the experience of intra-European exiles tackled by Spain’s highest-profile female director, Icíar Bollaín (Even the Rain, Take My Eyes). Gloria is a 32 year old native of Almería Spain. A teacher without a posting, and a shop assistant in an Edinburgh store for the past two years. Gloria has set up a collective with the motto...
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The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of economics itself has been added, and the implications of that history examined. Among other additions throughout the book, a new section on the special role of corporations in the economy has been added to the chapter on government and big business. Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six foreign languages, has grown so much that a large...
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"Economists have long based their forecasts on financial aggregates such as price-earnings ratios, asset prices, and exchange rate fluctuations, and used them to produce statistically informed speculations about the future--with limited success. Robert Shiller employs such aggregates in his own forecasts, but has famously complemented them with observations about the influence of mass psychology on certain events. This approach has come to be known...
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"The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade. That is the message of this brilliant and controversial summary of our current economic predicament from an internationally respected consultant and commentator on financial markets, who predicted the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The author challenges the assumption that growth can be perpetual and questions the ability of...
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Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's new Introduction for this edition both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his...
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"Co-Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Book Award in Economics, Axiom Business" John Quiggin is professor of economics at the University of Queensland in Australia.
In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.
The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream...
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017" "One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books...
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"Jean Tirole, Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School" "Longlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017" "One of the Times Higher Education Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Sir Anton Muscatelli" "One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by...
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government...
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The application of economics to major contemporary real-world problems - housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations, is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. It examines economic policies not simply in terms of their immediate effects but also in terms of their later repercussions, which are often very different...
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Have you ever wondered if business needs to be so... unbalanced? Is putting shareholders above everyone else the only way for private enterprise to be successful? Is that “just the way it is?” he short answer is “no.” Before “shareholder primacy” took hold in the 1970s, investors weren’t more important than other stakeholders. Companies balanced the interests of all the legs of the corporate stool – customers, employees, communities,...
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