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  • Minds Wide Shut

    How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

    by Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro ...
    A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Student Aid Game

    Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education

    by Morton Schapiro, Michael McPherson ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Cents and Sensibility

    What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

    by Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro ...
    In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    by Raghuram G. Rajan ...
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines , Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Shareholder Value Myth

    How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

    by Lynn Stout ...
    An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how ... Read more

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  • When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

    by Mohamed El-Erian ...
    SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."--MONEY MAGAZINE“This book is an essential read for those whowish to understand the modern world of investing.”—Alan GreenspanWinner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardWhen Markets Collide is a timely alert... ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Retirement In Canada

    by Thomas R. Klassen ...
    Series series In Canada
    A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live 20 years longer than that. And recent generations have witnessed other major social shifts in Canada, from women entering the workforce to alterations in traditional career patterns, from evolutions in the once-inviolable nuclear family to the decline of employer pension schemes. As the arc of our lives continues to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

    An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    It’s time to rewrite the rules—to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity.Inequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas ...
    Series series Anthem Finance
    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on empirical and theoretical studies by distinguished economists from both the past and present day, this book argues that the true workings of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Economic Analysis of Public Policy

    by William K. Bellinger ...
    A critical analysis of public policy decisions requires a far greater depth of knowledge than can be received from news reports and political speeches. Issues such as how best to reduce traffic congestion, reduce acid rain, improve airline safety or develop a parcel of land are better understood by organizing, measuring and weighing the effects of alternative policies. The Economic Analysis of ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Finance Ethics

    Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

    by John R. Boatright ...
    Series Book 11 - Robert W. Kolb Series
    A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practiceCompiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines.It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, ... Read more

    $63.00 USD