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Bettering Humanomics A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226765921, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor – not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful y...
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£24,00
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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...
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£28,00
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Better Business How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300247152, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all, or they can guide us toward better, more equitable long-term solutions. Christopher Marquis tells the...
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Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...
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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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Buddha at Work Finding Purpose, Balance and Happiness at Your Workplace
ISBN: PB: 9781760790547, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
288 pp., 21x13.5 cm
How can you bring your best and most successful self to work every day? Told in a series of conversations with Gautam, and interspersed with tales from the Buddha's life – along with real-life stories from people who've faced challenging situations i...
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£9,99
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Broken Bargain Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
ISBN: HB: 9780300223323, Yale University Press, February 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping a...
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Billionaires and Stealth Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables
In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...
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Belt and Road A Chinese World Order
ISBN: HB: 9781787380028, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agr...
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Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...
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