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Aisles Have Eyes How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300234695, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants t...
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Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...
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Essay on the Principle of Population
ISBN: PB: 9780300177411, Yale University Press, February 2018
624 pp., 20.8x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989....
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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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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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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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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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Forging Capitalism Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780300223590, ISBN: HB: 9780300181944, Yale University Press, January 2017
296 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 4 black&white illus.
A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's "Forging Capitalism"...
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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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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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