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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $18.45
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Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Woods
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Publication Date: 2009-02-09
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the small-government, politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you'll love Tom Woods's Meltdown. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work. Woods will reveal: * Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout--and why nobody listened
* What really caused the collapse
* Why the Fed--not taxpayers--should have to answer for the current economic crisis
* Why bailouts are band-aids that will only provide temporary relief and ultimately make things worse
* What we should do instead, to put our economy on a healthy path to recovery With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $17.08
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Giovanni Arrighi
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650
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Publication Date: 2009-01-05
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Acclaimed exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. Demonstrating Smith's continued relevance to understanding China's extraordinary rise, Arrighi examines the events that have brought it about, and the increasing dependence of US wealth and power on Chinese imports and purchases of US Treasury bonds. In the twenty-first century China may well become again the kind of non-capitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.
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Price: $82.00
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Sale: $54.00
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert J. Barro::Xavier Sala-i-Martin
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.900151
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Publication Date: 2003-10-01
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical and more recent growth theories, stressing their empirical implications and the relation of theory to data and evidence. The authors have undertaken a major revision for the long-awaited second edition of this widely used text, the first modern textbook devoted to growth theory. The book has been expanded in many areas and incorporates the latest research. After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Solow-Swan in the 1950s and Cass-Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition of heterogenity of households. The book then turns to endogenous growth theory, discussing, among other topics, models of endogenous technological progress (with an expanded discussion in this edition of the role of outside competition in the growth process), technological diffusion, and an endogenous determination of labor supply and population. The authors then explain the essentials of growth accounting and apply this framework to endogenous growth models. The final chapters cover empirical analysis of regions and empirical evidence on economic growth for a broad panel of countries from 1960 to 2000. The updated treatment of cross-country growth regressions for this edition uses the new Summers-Heston data set on world income distribution compiled through 2000.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.63
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Manufacturer: Granta UK
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chris Morris
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Publisher: Granta UK
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.104
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Publication Date: 2006
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Turkey is a country in a state of flux. In the last few years, far-reaching political and economic reforms have swept away much of the old order that ruled the country for so long. Pressure for change has come from ordinary people; it has also been motivated by the dominant issue of Turkish political life—the long pursuit of membership in the European Union. And yet Turkey remains a mystery to many outsiders, a complex country hard to fathom: secular and Muslim, Western and Eastern, democratic and authoritarian. |
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Price: $20.60
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Sale: $17.05
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Douglass C. North
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.9
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Publication Date: 1981-06
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Reading Level: 240
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Price: $34.99
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Victor Bulmer-Thomas
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.98003
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Publication Date: 2003-08-04
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Reading Level: 506
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Description: This book covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the similar external influences to which the region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the United States and explores the reasons. He also examines the new paradigm taking shape in Latin America since the debt crisis of the 1980s and asks whether this new economic model will be able to bring the growth and equity that the region desperately needs. First Edition Hb (1995): 0-521-36329-2 First Edition Pb (1995): 0-521-36872-3
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $82.76
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Longman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jonathan Hughes::Louis P. Cain
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
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Edition: 5th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.973
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Publication Date: 1997-07
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Reading Level: 634
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Description: The five parts cover: The colonial period, 16071783, The national period and constitutional crisis, 1783-1861, The rise of an industrial society, 1861-1914, The expansion of federal power 1914-1945, and Brave new world? 1945-present. DLC: United States Economic conditions.
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $26.01
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Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert B. Carson::Wade L. Thomas::Jason Hecht
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Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
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Edition: 8
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Publication Date: 2005-04-30
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: Written in non-technical, everyday language that is accessible to the undergraduate audience, and requiring no background in economic analysis, this acclaimed text provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. The authors address fourteen current economic issues, covering both micro- and macro-economics, and offer analyses and proposed solutions for each from Conservative, Liberal, and Radical perspectives. This new edition incorporates critical changes in economic policy since the last edition that affect every issue covered in the text. Tables have been updated throughout to include current economic data, and an all-new section on social policy frames the current debate about the Social Security system. The book's unique approach stimulates critical thinking on everyday issues that traditional texts either ignore or present as "settled" debates. It helps students to understand the dual role that ideology and logical/empirical argumentation play in economics. Issues are presented as stand-alone subjects that can be read in any sequence and used to supplement a wide range of principles of economics texts. An instructor's manual with a test bank and discussion questions is available to professors who adopt the text, and Power Point downloads are available as teaching aids. The text is also available in two separate volumes: Microeconomics Today and Macroeconomics Today.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.81
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Manufacturer: New Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Maude Barlow::Tony Clarke
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Publisher: New Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.91
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Publication Date: 2003-04
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: A real-life thriller about the corporate takeover of our most basic resource. In a shocking exposé, Blue Gold shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water." Increasingly, transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water companies—Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo—head one of the fastest growing and least regulated industries, buying up fresh water rights and drying up crucial reserves. Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to this trend, show how the corporate giants act in their own interest and how, contrary to received wisdom, water flows uphill to the wealthy who can afford it. The consumption of water doubles every twenty years—more than twice the rate of the increase in human population. Blue Goldcaptures in striking detail the forces behind the depletion of the world's fresh water, and the human and ecological impacts it entails.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $3.74
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Manufacturer: Business Plus
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bill H. Gates
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Publisher: Business Plus
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 658
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Publication Date: 2000-05-15
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Reading Level: 470
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Description: So where do you want to go tomorrow? That's the question Bill Gates tries to answer in Business @ the Speed of Thought. Gates offers a 12-step program for companies wanting to do business in the next millennium. The book's premise: Thanks to technology, the speed of business is accelerating at an ever-increasing rate, and to survive, it must develop an infrastructure--a "digital nervous system"--that allows for the unfettered movement of information inside a company. Gates writes that "The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition ... is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose." The book is peppered with examples of companies that have already successfully engineered information networks to manage inventory, sales, and customer relationships better. The examples run from Coca-Cola's ability to download sales data from vending machines to Microsoft's own internal practices, such as its reliance on e-mail for company-wide communication and the conversion of most paper processes to digital ones (an assertion that seems somewhat at odds with the now-infamous "by hand on sheets of paper" method of tracking profits that was revealed during Microsoft's antitrust trial). While Gates breaks no new ground--dozens of authors have been writing about competing on a digital playing field for some time, among them Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian in Information Rules and Patricia Seybold in Customers.com--businesses that want a wakeup call may find this book a ringer. With excerpts in Time magazine, a dedicated Web site, and an all-out media assault, Microsoft is working hard to push Business @ the Speed of Thought into the national dialogue, and for many it will be difficult to see the book as anything but a finely tuned marketing campaign for the forthcoming versions of Windows NT and MS Office. Nevertheless, as Gates has shown time and time again, him, Microsoft, and perhaps even this book you may ignore at your own peril. --Harry C. Edwards
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