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Slices and Lumps Division and Aggregation in Law and Life
ISBN: HB: 9780226650265, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings
How things are divided up or pieced together matters. Half a bridge is of no use at all. Conversely, many things would do more good if they could be divided up differently: Perhaps you would prefer a job that involves a third less work and a third le...
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£27,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer
ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables
Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...
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£98,00
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Corporate Peace How Global Business Shapes a Hostile World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381278, Hurst Publishers, January 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ours is an era of big companies, multinational brands and global business power, but also of seemingly unending conflict. Corporate Peace examines how corporations respond to the life-and-death business of war and peace. What h...
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£20,00
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Artist as Economist Art and Capitalism in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9780300232707, Yale University Press, November 2019
244 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstract...
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£50,00
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Leading with Dignity How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People
ISBN: PB: 9780300248456, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book "Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict", Donna Hick...
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£12,99
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Underground Wealth of Nations On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
ISBN: HB: 9780300218220, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale business...
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£65,00
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CEO Leadership Navigating the New Era in Corporate Governance
ISBN: HB: 9780226665160, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
Corporate governance for public companies in the United States today is a fragile balance between shareholders, board members, and CEOs. Shareholders, who are focused on profits, put pressure on boards, who are accountable for operations and profitab...
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Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy
ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones
The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...
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£34,00
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Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table
The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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