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English
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Newly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America's most revered economists.
Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations, illustrated with examples from around the world. This
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Why are humans the only species to have escaped - only very recently - the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Immense in scope and packed with astounding connections, Galor's gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning...
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Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH. Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now.
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Raworth sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design. Named after the now-iconic doughnut? image that Raworth first drew to depict a sweet spot of human prosperity (an image that appealed to...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A few years ago, Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before: huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies. Here Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires-- the Dutch, the British, and the American-- and puts into perspective the "big cycle" that has drives the successes and failures of all the...
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BIG cong shu volume 192
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2009
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中文(繁體)
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Linda Scott coined the phrase "Double X Economy" to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In The Double X Economy, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Scott opens our eyes to the myriad economic injustices that constrain women throughout the world: fathers buying and selling daughters against...
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Publisher
World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
"Explores ways that people can reduce their use of fossil fuels, and thereby reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted, and ways to adapt to a warming world; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"--
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Series
Cai jing qi guan volume 649
Publisher
Yuan jian tian xia wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2018.
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中文(繁體)
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. MIT's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd....
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"In 2018, the Republican-led State of Wisconsin signed a economic-development deal with Foxconn, the China-based electronics manufacturer, nominally securing 13,000 jobs. Yet as journalist Lawrence Tabak powerfully shows, the deal is a disaster in every dimension: economic, political, cultural, legal, and environmental. Disfranchising American citizens of power, money, and land, the Foxconn deal demonstrates all the ways that the pursuit of jobs can...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions of readers. Fast Forward, by two women leaders with experience and access throughout corporate America and around the world, takes the next step. Through interviews with a network...
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California natural history guides volume 97
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
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Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Ideas audaces para una región más rica, más justa, más integrada en el mundo e infinitamente más feliz. América Latina es un enigma. Mientras los medios publican titulares sobre protestas, crimen, desigualdad, populismo y deuda, quienes viven y trabajan en esta región de setecientos millones de personas afrontan una realidad infinitamente más compleja, asombrosa y -en muchas ocasiones- alentadora. Pocas figuras comprenden esta dualidad más...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds-from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and...
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