This is the seventeenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.
This is the seventeenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.
Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.
Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk deals with the highly timely topic of the Corporate Board and its relationship to risk, both in terms of its management and its creation.
In this volume marine experts from countries of East Africa and southern Asia describe the conditions of marine resources of the large marine ecosystems of the Indian Ocean.
Ecological economics is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study that combines insights from the natural sciences, economics, philosophy and other fields to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems.
The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy.
Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.
This is the fourteenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.
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.
The book will enable readers to understand the purposes of the different budgets and forecasts and it will explain in detail how they are prepared and used.
In this vital economic roadmap, economist Arthur Laffe and journalist Stephen Moore lay out the essential components of a healthy economy: lower government spending, debt reduction, and the return of the investor class.
Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century.
Small in size but packed with detailed information, Barron's Business Dictionaries are extremely useful and economical reference sources for business students, business managers, and general readers seeking advice and information on specific business subjects.
A thoughtful and comprehensive guide to Economics with crystal-clear summaries and explanationsBooks in this series are designed for classroom use, summarizing key concepts and presenting review questions with answers and explanations.
"e;A brilliant and lucid new book"e; (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world's most difficult problems-and their solutionsIn The Curse of Cash, acclaimed economist and bestselling author Kenneth Rogoff explores the past, present, and future of currency, showing why, contrary to conventional economic wisdom, the regulation of paper bills-and now digital currencies-lies at the heart some of the world's most difficult problems, but also their potential solutions.
A comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and IndiaThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention-and justifiably so.
'The most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute and in doing so, save ourselves.
La primera pregunta que le hacen los vendedores a Bridget Brennan, CEO de Female Factor, es siempre la misma: «¿Cómo puedo sobrevivir cuando los clientes tienen tantas opciones respecto de dónde comprar mi producto?
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling history of financial crisesThroughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing, and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises.
What the loans and defaults of a sixteenth-century Spanish king can tell us about sovereign debt todayWhy do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt?
