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  • Economic Growth

    by Quamrul H. Ashraf, David N. Weil ...
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? This leading text introduces students to the latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this pivotal question. By showing how empirical evidence relates to new and old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth provides students with a complete introduction to the discipline and the latest research.In addition to thorough updates to the data ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better

    Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study

    by Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil ...
    Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better examines the performance and operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books that have focused on the financial side of the housing sector prior to the Great Recession, the book examines the operational side of the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Stitch in Time

    Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries

    by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil ...
    The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Fissured Workplace

    by David Weil ...
    In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Fissured Workplace

    Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

    by David Weil ...
    For much of the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, as David Weil’s groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

    by Jirí Weil ...
    Translated by David Lightfoot ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    “Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fine pieces of bone that ovens were not able to burn. When the wind comes, ashes rise to the heavens, bone fragments remain on the ground. And rain falls on the ashes, and rain turns them to good fertile soil, as ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • African Successes, Volume IV

    Sustainable Growth

    Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, David N. Weil ...
    Series Book 4 - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • African Successes, Volume I

    Government and Institutions

    Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, David N. Weil ...
    Series Book 1 - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • African Successes, Volume II

    Human Capital

    Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, David N. Weil ...
    Series Book 2 - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • African Successes, Volume III

    Modernization and Development

    Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, David N. Weil ...
    Series Book 3 - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Governing for Results

    A Director's Guide to Good Governance

    by Mel D. Gill ...
    BEST SELLERThis BEST SELLIING book provides a comprehensive guide to effective governance for board members and their senior executives. The author offers a new framework for understanding boards and proposes practices that boards can use to fulfill their stewardship responsibilities, strengthen board performance and improve organizational effectiveness. The book discusses the basics of governance ... Read more

    $3.99 USD