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Economists
ISBN: HB: 9780300249972, Yale University Press, February 2020
200 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 90 black&white illus.
Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists – from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field – this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by acc...
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£30,00
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Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: HB: 9780226695624, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 line drawings, 48 tables
The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigr...
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£105,00
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Getting Customers Easier, Faster and for Less Money Than You Ever Thought Possible
ISBN: PB: 9781861519443, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, January 2020
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Winning customers is the lifeblood of any business, yet so many people fail dismally at it. James Sinclair knows how it's done – in 15 years he has built a one-man business as a children's clown into a multi-million-pound enterprise with a network of...
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£9,50
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Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Willful How We Choose What We Do
ISBN: HB: 9780300246438, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conformi...
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£20,00
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Fully Grown Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
ISBN: HB: 9780226666006, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 figures, 7 tables
Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has sl...
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£20,00
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Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables
In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...
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£44,00
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Out of Stock The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226662909, ISBN: HB: 9780226662879, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones
In "Out of Stock", Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Productivity in Higher Education
ISBN: HB: 9780226574585, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 96 line drawings, 72 tables
How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in "Productivi...
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£98,00
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