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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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How We Cooperate A Theory of Kantian Optimization
ISBN: PB: 9780300233339, Yale University Press, June 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Game theory assumes that people are self-interested and works from this premise to explain competitive behavior. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for coope...
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£45,00
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Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...
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£45,00
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Hugh Lane The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915
ISBN: HB: 9780300236583, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 95 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This book charts a geography of the art market and the art museum in the early 20th century through the legacy of one influential dealer. Born in Ireland, Hugh Lane (1875-1915) established himself in London in the 1890s. With little formal education...
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£40,00
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High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
ISBN: HB: 9780226525525, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U. S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect e...
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£97,50
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Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226556000, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few economists can claim the influence – or fame – of F. A. Hayek. Winner of the Nobel Prize, Hayek was one of the most consequential thinkers of the twentieth century, his views on the free market echoed by such major figures as Ronald Reagan and Ma...
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£30,00
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How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...
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£22,50
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Humans Need Not Apply A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: PB: 9780300223576, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm
An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work Selected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Economist Af...
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£10,99
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Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History
ISBN: HB: 9780226429588, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings
Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its as...
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£49,00
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Housekeeping by Design Hotels and Labor
ISBN: PB: 9780226389127, ISBN: HB: 9780226389097, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings
One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don't have to clean. That doesn't, however, mean the work disappears – when we're not looking, someone else is doing it. With "Houseke...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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