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Out of Stock The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226662909, ISBN: HB: 9780226662879, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones
In "Out of Stock", Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development
ISBN: HB: 9780226426365, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables
Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estima...
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£97,50
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Only Game in Town Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
ISBN: PB: 9780300222630, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white figs.
An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds. Surrounded by sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment, rising inequality, growing financial instability and increased social tensions, pessimism about our future a...
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£12,99
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Organic Futures Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm
ISBN: HB: 9780300199451, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
An exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realities In recent years, the popularity of organically grown produce has exploded. In 2014, organic fruits...
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£30,00
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Other People's Houses How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
ISBN: PB: 9780300212709, ISBN: HB: 9780300168983, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded c...
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£36,00
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£20,00
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Odd Couple International Trade and Labor Standards in History
ISBN: HB: 9780300158700, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labour standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labour and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more a country can competitively partici...
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£57,00
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Out of the Pits Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
ISBN: PB: 9780226978147, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
238 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finan...
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£22,00
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Out of Nowhere The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
ISBN: PB: 9781841262345, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2009
328 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 39 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
How does a boy from a small Oregon farm town get swept up in the politics of his chosen sport? Out of Nowhere takes the reader along on Geoff Hollister's 33 year journey at the center of Nike, the company that would change not only the world of athle...
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£14,95
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