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Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior
ISBN: HB: 9780226619804, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 130 figures, 57 tables
Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of...
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£98,00
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Women vs Capitalism Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
ISBN: HB: 9781787381742, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus...
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£12,99
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Free Enterprise An American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300238259, Yale University Press, October 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how t...
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£25,00
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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Capital in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226633114, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 line drawings, 132 tables
When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926-1998) gathered...
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£49,00
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Heineken in Africa A Multinational Unleashed
ISBN: HB: 9781849049023, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
240 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presen...
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£20,00
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Economics of Artificial Intelligence An Agenda
ISBN: HB: 9780226613338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings, 21 tables
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. I...
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£98,00
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33
ISBN: HB: 9780226645865, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently...
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£45,00
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018 Volume 33
ISBN: HB: 9780226645728, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
500 pp., 23x15 cm
This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equi...
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£68,00
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Coaching Effect What Great Leaders Do to Increase Sales, Enhance Performance, and Sustain Growth
ISBN: HB: 9781626346093, Bookport, Greenleaf Book Group, July 2019
200 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
Authors Bill Eckstrom and Sarah Wirth have spent a decade researching the activities, behaviors, and performance of leaders. After studying more than 100,000 coaching interactions in the workplace, primarily of sales teams, they have been able to det...
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£21,50
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