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  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles

    by José A. Scheinkman ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles—those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book José A. Scheinkman offers new insight into the mystery of bubbles. Noting some general characteristics of bubbles—such as the rise ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Rights to Nature

    Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and Political Principles of Institutions for the Environment

    by Narpat Jodha, Svein Jentoft, Bonnie McCay, Margaret McKean, Steven Sanderson, C. S. Holling, Elinor Ostrom, Jean Ensminger, Oran Young ...
    Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation.Rights to Nature is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Economy As An Evolving Complex System

    by Philip W. Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, David Pines ...
    This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes. ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Human Well-Being and Economic Goals

    Edited by Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Kevin Gallagher ...
    Series series Frontier Issues in Economic Thought
    What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as:Does the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
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  • The Making of the President 1960

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    The Pulitzer Prize-winning behind-the-scenes account of the historic Nixon-Kennedy race: "A fascinating story of a fascinating campaign." — TimeThis is the dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle that captured the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, and in the process revolutionized modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all ... Read more

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  • Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Introduction and plan of the work Part 1 Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive ... Read more

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  • The Story of Mathematics

    From creating the pyramids to exploring infinity

    by Anne Rooney ...
    Series series The Story of
    'In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.'- Galileo (1564-1642)For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. How the World Works: Mathematics ... Read more

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  • Currency Wars

    The Making of the Next Global Crisis

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    Dive into the gripping world of international ecocomics through American lawyer, investment banker, media commentator, and author, James G. Rickards's expertise and thought-provoking insights.From collapsed paper currencies and hidden agendas of soveriegn wealth funds to the very real threats of national security, James G. Rickards scrutinizes the history and disastrous outcomes of currency wars, ... Read more

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  • Street Smarts

    Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

    by Jim Rogers ...
    Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for ... Read more

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