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    How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains

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  • How Did All This Happen?

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    If you’re a man of a certain age you’ll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car and over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea.With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop was no different when he turned the dreaded 4-0. But instead of spanking a load of cash on a car that ... Leer más

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    How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

    de John Cassidy ...
    Narrado por Geoffrey Howard ...

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    Behind the alarming financial headlines is a little-known story of bad ideas. For over fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories of how markets work. What about when markets don’t work? What about when they lead to stock-market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real-estate crashes, and credit crunches?In How Markets Fail, Cassidy describes the influence “utopian ... Leer más

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  • How to Fight a Bear . . . and Win

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    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
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  • How Novels Work

    de John Mullan ...
    Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm ... Leer más

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  • How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

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    Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work—how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock ... Leer más

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    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
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  • Before the Refrigerator

    How We Used to Get Ice

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