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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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£27,00
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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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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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