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  • Investment Beliefs

    A Positive Approach to Institutional Investing

    by K. Koedijk, A. Slager ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Having the right investment beliefs and putting them into practice is key to delivering the right results. Decision makers in the investment industry should worry less about the stocks and products they pick for their clients and more about getting the big picture right; developing investment beliefs are instrumental in making the right choices. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Achieving Investment Excellence

    A Practical Guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and Foundations

    by Kees Koedijk, Alfred Slager, Jaap van Dam ...
    Series series Frank J. Fabozzi Series
    Crucial methods, tactics and tools for successful pension fund managementAchieving Investment Excellence offers trustees and asset managers a comprehensive handbook for improving the quality of their investments. With a stated goal of substantially and sustainably improving annual returns, this book clarifies and demystifies important concepts surrounding trustee duties and responsibilities, ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Capital in Classical Antiquity

    Edited by Max Koedijk, Neville Morley ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
    This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty’s work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically. The book derives from a research workshop in Berlin in April 2018, which brought together a group of established and early career scholars to discuss the implications of Piketty’s work and related themes for classical antiquity. Key questions ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • Escape from Rome

    The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age ... Read more

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  • Free Market

    The History of an Idea

    by Jacob Soll ...
    From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Money

    The Unauthorized Biography

    by Felix Martin ...
    From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of money. ... Read more

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  • Secular Cycles

    by Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov ...
    Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

    by Josiah Ober ...
    Series series The Princeton History of the Ancient World
    A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Roman Market Economy

    by Peter Temin ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    What modern economics can tell us about ancient RomeThe quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity.Peter ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Modern World-System I

    Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • States of Credit

    Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities

    by David Stasavage ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence of an active form of ... Read more

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