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Routine Crisis An Ethnography of Disillusion
ISBN: PB: 9780226752785, ISBN: HB: 9780226752648, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001-2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign defaul...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Return on Courage A Playbook for Courageous Change
ISBN: HB: 9780999191354, Bookport, Greenleaf Book Group, July 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Learn to Lead with Courage Ryan Berman has spent the last two years studying the most courageous people and leaders on the planet. So what do an astronaut, a Navy SEAL, the cofounder of Method, the former VP of communications at Apple, and the presid...
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£19,99
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Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: HB: 9780226695624, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 line drawings, 48 tables
The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigr...
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£105,00
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Russia's Crony Capitalism The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300243093, Yale University Press, May 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the jud...
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£25,00
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Retire Secure Insights on Money Management from an Award-Winning Financial Columnist
ISBN: PB: 9781454928850, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2018
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
A curated collection of the best retirement advice from financial advisor Julie Jasons acclaimed nationally syndicated column. Organised in 10 sections, each following a theme, Retire Secure is her accessible, easy-to-read collection of need-to-know...
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£12,99
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Rhetorical Memory A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management
ISBN: HB: 9780226263380, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 8 line drawings, 1 table
Institutions have regimes – policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices – day-to-day behaviors performed by individual wor...
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£40,00
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Resistance to Innovation Its Sources and Manifestations
ISBN: HB: 9780226632605, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 13 line drawings, 23 tables
Every year, about 25,000 new products are introduced in the United States. Most of these products fail – at considerable expense to the companies that produce them. Such failures are typically thought to result from consumers' resistance to innovatio...
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£36,00
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Risk Topography Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling
ISBN: HB: 9780226077734, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 line drawings, 14 tables
The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models i...
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£88,00
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Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...
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£24,00
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£73,00
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Realeconomik The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (and How to Avert the Next One)
ISBN: PB: 9780300192391, ISBN: HB: 9780300159103, Yale University Press, March 2013
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand the causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such damaging crises...
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£19,00
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