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Boom, bust & echo 2000: profiting from the demographic shift in the new millennium
By David K Foot. 1998
This revised version of "Boom, bust & echo" focuses on the demographic trends of the Canadian baby boomer generation. As…
a result, we learn some profound lessons about how social and educational programs should be developed and delivered. 1998.Name-dropping: from F.D.R. on (. Ser.)
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1999
A renowned economist and political insider reminisces on his relationships with major public figures, including presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy,…
and Johnson. Offers plentiful anecdotes as well as insights into some of the key personalities that helped shape the twentieth century. 1999The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
By Stephen Cohen, J. Brandford Delong. 2010
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
By John Seely Brown, Iii Hagel. 2010
In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into…
its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into the stream. But many of us remain stuck in old practices--practices that could undermine us as we search for success and meaning. In this revolutionary book, three doyens of the Internet age, whose path-breaking work has made headlines around the world, reveal the adjustments we must make if we take these changes seriously. In a world of increasing risk and opportunity, we must understand the importance of pull. Understood and used properly, the power of pull can draw out the best in people and institutions by connecting them in ways that increase understanding and effectiveness. Pull can turn uncertainty into opportunity, and enable small moves to achieve outsized impact. Drawing on pioneering research, The Power of Pull shows how to apply its principles to unlock the hidden potential of individuals and organizations, and how to use it as a force for social change and the development of creative talent. The authors explore how to use the power of pull to: Access new sources of information Attract likeminded individuals from around the world Shape serendipity to increase the likelihood of positive chance encounters Form creation spaces to drive you and your colleagues to new heights Transform your organization to adapt to the flow of knowledge The Power of Pull is essential reading for entrepreneurs, managers, and anybody interested in understanding and harnessing the shifting forces of our networked world.Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Economics
By Paul Hoang, Margaret Ducie. 2018
Written with the international student in mind, this book is endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations and contains the most up-to-date…
case studies, global examples and statistics.- In-depth coverage of every aspect of the latest Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Economics syllabuses to help students build the skills needed to succeed- Engaging and contemporary case studies and examples ensure the book is relevant to the international student- Accessible language and key terms defined to support ESL/EAL students- Student-focused CD-ROM provides useful weblinks to the latest case studies, interactive activities and answers to the questions in the textbook"A stimulating and exciting introduction to Economics that enables students from anywhere in the world to relate to the subject."Caroline Loewenstein, Economics and Business Education AssociationCambridge International Examinations and Hodder Education Hodder Education works closely with Cambridge International Examinations and is an authorised publisher of endorsed textbooks for a wide range of Cambridge syllabuses and curriculum frameworks. Hodder Education resources - tried and tested over many years but updated regularly - are used with confidence worldwide by thousands of Cambridge students.OCR A-level Economics Student Guide 3: Microeconomics 2
By Sam Dobin. 2016
Written by experienced teacher Sam Dobin, this Student Guide for Economics:- Identifies the key content you need to know with…
a concise summary of topics examined in the A-level specifications- Develops your independent learning skills with content you can use for further study and research- Enables you to measure your understanding with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers at the end of the guide- Helps you to improve your exam technique with sample answers to exam-style questionsThe Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
By Branko Milanovic. 2011
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn…
over a lifetime? How would we know? Why--beyond the idle curiosity--do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time. Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out of today's newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions in our social lives: between the haves and the have-nots. He reveals just how rich Elizabeth Bennet's suitor Mr. Darcy really was; how much Anna Karenina gained by falling in love; how wealthy ancient Romans compare to today's super-rich; where in Kenyan income distribution was Obama's grandfather; how we should think about Marxism in a modern world; and how location where one is born determines his wealth. He goes beyond mere entertainment to explain why inequality matters, how it damages our economics prospects, and how it can threaten the foundations of the social order that we take for granted. Bold, engaging, and illuminating, The Haves and the Have-Nots teaches us not only how to think about inequality, but why we should.From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international…
corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Economics 2nd edition
By David Horner, Paul Hoang, Margaret Ducie. 2018
This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2020.Discover Economics as…
a real-world subject through case studies from around the world and provide in-depth coverage of the latest Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Economics syllabuses (0455/2281). - Trust an experienced author team to navigate the syllabuses confidently with clearly-defined learning objectives throughout.- Deepen understanding by applying knowledge to real-life global case studies.- Extend learning beyond the classroom by reflecting on skills learned and applying them to local and global environments. - Check understanding with engaging activities that thoroughly integrate deep learning skills. - Benefit from language support with an accessible text and definitions of technical terms throughout.- Consolidate learning with chapter reviews and examination-style questions, as well as useful links to extra activities and answers to the questions online.Available in this series:Student Textbook Second edition (ISBN 9781510421271)Student eTextbook (ISBN 9781510420212)Whiteboard eTextbook (ISBN 9781510420229) Workbook (ISBN 9781510421288)Online Teacher's Guide (ISBN 9781510424135)Study and Revision Guide (ISBN 9781510421295)The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
By William Easterly. 2006
From one of the world's best-known development economists-an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve…
the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch-a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.Need to Know: A-level Aqa Business Epub
By Neil James. 2018
Exam Board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Business First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017Find what you need to know,…
when you need it, with key facts at your fingertips for AQA A-level Business.Keep this course companion by your side throughout your A-levels so you can check content, review your understanding, use quick tips for success and improve your exam performance.Written by an experienced teacher, author and examiner, this book will help you to: - Build on your learning throughout the course by reinforcing the key facts, terms and concepts from the AQA A-level Business specification - Put the content into context with synoptic links between topics and exam tips on technique, mistakes to avoid and things to remember - Revise with confidence using 'Do you know?' questions at the end of each topic and synoptic questions at the end of each sectionNeed to Know: Aqa A-level Economics Epub
By David Horner, Steve Stoddard. 2018
Exam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Economics First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017 (A-level)Keep this course companion by…
your side throughout your A-levels so you can check content, review your understanding, use quick tips for success and improve your exam performance.Written by an experienced teacher, author and examiner, this book will help you to: - Build on your learning throughout the course by reinforcing the key facts, terms and concepts from the AQA A-level Economics specification - Put the content into context with synoptic links between topics and exam tips on technique, mistakes to avoid and things to remember - Revise with confidence using 'Do you know?' questions at the end of each topic and synoptic questions at the end of each sectionNeed to Know: Edexcel A-level Economicsepub
By David Horner, Steve Stoddard. 2018
Exam board: Edexcel Level: A-level Subject: Economics First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Keep…
this course companion by your side throughout your A-levels so you can check content, review your understanding, use quick tips for success and improve your exam performance. Written by an experienced teacher, author and examiner, this book will help you to: - Build on your learning throughout the course by reinforcing the key facts, terms and concepts from the Edexcel A-level Economics specification - Put the content into context with synoptic links between topics and exam tips on technique, mistakes to avoid and things to remember - Revise with confidence using 'Do you know?' questions at the end of each topic and synoptic questions at the end of each sectionJames M. Buchanan
By Richard E. Wagner. 2018
“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political,…
and social theory.”– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine collection is the extraordinary expanse of James Buchanan's work. Everyone interested in economics and related fields can profit mightily from this book."– Mario Rizzo, Professor of Economics, New York University, USAThis book explores the academic contribution of James Buchanan, who received the Nobel Prize for economics in 1986. Buchanan’s receipt of the Prize is noteworthy because he was a maverick within the economics profession. In contrast to the preponderance of economists, Buchanan made little use of mathematics and no use of econometrics, preferring to used logic and language to insert his ideas into the scholarly community. Moreover, his ideas extended the domain of economic inquiry along many paths that numerous economists subsequently pursued. Buchanan’s scholarship brought economics and political science together under the rubric of public choice. He was also was a prime figure in bringing economic theory into closer contact with moral and social philosophy.This volume includes essays distributed across the extensive domain of Buchanan’s scholarly contributions, reflecting the range of his scholarly interests. Chapters will examine Buchanan’s scholarly work on public finance, social insurance, public debt, public choice, economic methodology, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and ethics and social theory. The book also examines Buchanan in relation to other prominent economists, both from the distant past and the recent past.The Economic Theory of Representative Government
By Albert Breton. 2007
This book provides a theory capable of explaining the patterns of public expenditures and taxation that occur under representative government.…
Economists and political scientists have come to realize that issues of public policy and public finance cannot be solved on the naive assumption that these are problems tackled by a government that exists only to serve the public good. Instead, government must be understood as one of the major economic institutions of society, one that behaves like more familiar economic institutions--the household and the firm--though the market it confronts is a market for policies rather than for goods and services. Albert Breton's pathbreaking work remains important in taking us toward a theory of representative government that enables an understanding of the observed behavior of political institutions.The author's analysis is cast in a relatively simple demand, supply and demand-supply-equilibrium framework, using the tools of marginal and stability analysis to explain the forces that influence and determine the flow of resources as they are allocated between competing ends in the public sector. The book presents a model of demand by citizens, who are assumed to be maximizing their desires for specific public policies and private goods, and a model of the supply of public policies by politicians and bureaucrats, who are assumed to be maximizing the probability of their re-election and the size of their budgets. Breton defines government policies and the institutional framework for collective choices in terms that render them amenable to further analysis.The main accomplishment of Breton's theory is that it provides the ability to analyze the interaction of individuals and generates testable propositions about the behavior of these individuals as well as about the behavior of public expenditures and taxation in more aggregative terms. In this way the book will be useful to students of economics, economists, and those interested in economic theory.Rate of Profit, Distribution and Growth: Two Views
By J. A. Kregel. 2006
A controversy among economists has raged in the pages of professional journals for the last decade. The debate concerns capital…
theory and distribution theory, as well as interpretation of models of long-run economic growth. This book is an attempt to integrate recent developments in capital theory and show their implications for models of long-run economic growth in mature capitalistic countries.This book first presents the von Neumann model and outlines its classical approach to the rate of profits and distribution. Sraffa's resolution of the value-price transformation problem is then presented and compared with Samuelson's ""Surrogate Production Function"". With the results of this comparison and the delineation of the special case in which the ""Surrogate"" is valid, several existing models of growth are set out in two representative groups.Neoclassical models form the first group. These are defined by their reliance on marginal theory to determine factor prices, the rate of profit and therefore distribution via the perfectly differentiable production function. Models of Meade, Tobin, Solow, and Samuelson- Modigliani are outlined and analyzed for their treatment and distribution and profits theory. The second group is comprised of models within the strict Keynesian tradition. The basic groundwork of these models as found in the work of Keynes and Kalecki is first cited. The Keynesian models are characterized by their assumption that the investment decision is totally independent of savings decisions in the economy. The models of Harrod, Kaldor, Pasinetti and Joan Robinson are presented and their method of approach to the rate of profits and distribution is analyzed.The concluding chapter focuses on some criticisms brought against the Keynesian models and offers some generalized formulations to deal with these neoclassical objections. General conclusions follow the treatment of each representative group and author.Economic Philosophy (Pelican Ser.)
By Joan Robinson. 2006
"Economics has always been partly a vehicle" for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method…
of scientific investigation. It limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. Here our task is to sort out as best we may this mixture of ideology and science."With these provocative words, Joan Robinson introduces this lively and iconoclastic book. "In what follows," she says, "this theme is illustrated by reference to one or two of the leading ideas of the economists from Adam Smith onwards, not in a learned manner, tracing the development of thought, nor historically, to show how ideas arose out of the problems of each age, but rather an attempt to puzzle out the mysterious way that metaphysical propositions, without any logical content, can yet be a powerful influence on thought and action."Robinson is responsible for some of the most austerely professional contributions to economic theory, but here in effect she takes the reader behind the scenes and cheerfully exposes the dogmatic content of economic orthodoxy. In its place, she offers the possibility that with obsolete metaphysics cleared out of the way economics can make a substantial advance toward science. .Laboring for Freedom: New Look at the History of Labor in America
By Daniel Jacoby. 1998
This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this…
history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing…
numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathersAfter the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000
By David M. Gordon, Samuel Bowles, Thomas E. Weisskopf. 1991
This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of…
austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.