In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.
With a population of 1 billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world.
With wit, deep insight, and plenty of humor gained from her observations of male and female purchasing patterns over the years, veteran branding, marketing, and salesperson Elizabeth Pace shows readers how to increase their revenue and sell more effectively.
Is the United States "e;the land of equal opportunity"e; or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white?
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.
Why most Americans' finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression-and the policy choices that made this possibleIn March 2020, economic and social life across the United States came to an abrupt halt as the country tried to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market.
Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand.
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past.
En esta obra se analizan los efectos del IEPS aplicado a las bebidas saborizadas, a los alimentos no básicos con alta densidad calórica en la desigualdad, a las ventas de estos bienes y a los indicadores económicos, tales como empleo y valor agregado.
Regression Analysis: Unified Concepts, Practical Applications, Computer Implementation is a concise and innovative book that gives a complete presentation of applied regression analysis in approximately one-half the space of competing books.
A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-and-spend decisions.
Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships.
For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation.
A nonpartisan plan of action for fixing the global economy from fifteen of the world's leading economistsIn the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake.
How religious beliefs and practices can influence the wealth of nationsWhich countries grow faster economically-those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them?
El surgimiento de una de las mas exitosas economias exportadoras del planeta en el que hasta el siglo XVIII habia sido un rincon muy poco prometedor de un arcaico imperio colonial constituye sin duda el tema central de la historia de la Argentina moderna.
Die Bedeutung der unmittelbaren Verknüpfung von medizinischen und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen wird auch angesichts der enormen Dynamik und Herausforderungen einer nahezu alles beherrschenden Pandemie im Gesundheitswesen deutlich.
Este libro inicialmente presenta los principios económicos básicos; la relación entre economía y recursos naturales; los derechos de propiedad; las fallas del mercado y la relación beneficio costo como criterio de decisión para la asignación eficiente de los recursos naturales.
Este libro agrupa un conjunto ensayos de reflexión crítica en torno al pensamiento económico, las organizaciones y empresas híbridas como un cuarto sector de la economía, y el Acuerdo de Paz suscrito entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP.
El propósito de este libro es ofrecer un análisis económico de las diferentes actividades que se realizan en el mercado de Tulcán, a partir de un conjunto de instrumentos económicos que permiten evaluar el estudio y análisis comportamental de las diferentes variables, así como obtener las principales conclusiones sobre los factores socio económicos de la ciudad.
Este libro analiza la actividad comercial en la ciudad de Tulcán, a partir de acciones humanas que requieren de pensamientos y emociones que generan procesos y resultados.
