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  • The Work of the Future

    Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Elisabeth Reynolds, David H. Autor, David A. Mindell ...
    Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Linear Programming and Economic Analysis

    by Robert Dorfman, Paul A. Samuelson, Robert M. Solow ...
    Series series Dover Books on Computer Science
    Designed primarily for economists and those interested in management economics who are not necessarily accomplished mathematicians, this text offers a clear, concise exposition of the relationship of linear programming to standard economic analysis. The research and writing were supported by The RAND Corporation in the late 1950s.Linear programming has been one of the most important postwar ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability

    by Robert M. Solow ...
    Nobel Laureate Robert Solow explores how changes in social accounting practice could contribute to more rational debate and action in crafting economic and environmental policy. A thoughtful work about the wise use of society's natural resources, intergenerational equity, and the translation of ideas about sustainability into real policy. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Secrets of Economics Editors

    Edited by Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan ...
    Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy.Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of manuscripts each year—from submission to review to rejection or acceptance—all while continuing their own ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Work and Welfare

    by Robert M. Solow ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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  • Mathematics for Economics, fourth edition

    by Michael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris Mckenna, Ray Rees, Thanasis Stengos ...
    An updated edition of a widely used textbook, offering a clear and comprehensive presentation of mathematics for undergraduate economics students.This text offers a clear and comprehensive presentation of the mathematics required to tackle problems in economic analyses, providing not only straightforward exposition of mathematical methods for economics students at the intermediate and advanced ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 50 Economics Classics

    Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy

    by Tom Butler-Bowdon ...
    Explore the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in economics. Gain the insights and research of contemporary economists and commentators.WINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Understanding Marxism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Social Entrepreneurship

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Bornstein, Susan Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Basic Mathematics for Economics, Business and Finance

    by EK Ummer ...
    This book can help overcome the widely observed math-phobia and math-aversion among undergraduate students in these subjects. The book can also help them understand why they have to learn different mathematical techniques, how they can be applied, and how they will equip the students in their further studies.The book provides a thorough but lucid exposition of most of the mathematical techniques ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Media Ethics

    Key Principles for Responsible Practice

    by Patrick L. Plaisance ...
    Media Ethics: Key Principles for Responsible Practice makes ethics accessible and applicable to media practice, and explains key ethical principles and their application in print and broadcast journalism, public relations, advertising, marketing, and digital media. Unlike application-oriented casebooks, this text sets forth the philosophical underpinnings of key principles and explains how each ... Read more

    $100.79 USD