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To Learn Fathom Your Learning Principle to Become a Better Leader
ISBN: PB: 9781782551034, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, November 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Do you teach? Do you manage? Do you inspire? Do you sell? If the answer is yes to any of these or similar duties, then at least part of your job description or self-chosen pathway will likely include encouraging learning by your students, workers, fo...
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£16,95
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Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection
ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm
In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...
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£20,00
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Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America
ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...
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£34,00
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Building Nature's Market The Business and Politics of Natural Foods
ISBN: PB: 9780226501376, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks,...
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£26,50
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Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...
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£16,99
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Innovation Illusion How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard
ISBN: PB: 9780300230475, ISBN: HB: 9780300217407, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious t...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 31
ISBN: HB: 9780226539270, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The papers in "Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31" are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dar...
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£45,00
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Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses Current Knowledge and Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9780226454078, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings, 121 tables
Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company l...
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£97,50
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Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
 There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables
Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...
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