Roger: 3830 books
Experimental Design
Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Experimental Design: Procedures for Behavioral Sciences, Fourth Edition is a classic text with a reputuation for accessibility and readability. It has been revised and updated to make learning design concepts even easier. Roger E. Kirk shows how three simple experimental designs can be combined to...
Game Theory
Analysis of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes...
The Price of Freedom Denied
Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim...
How the Economy Works
Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
"Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking...
The Mendacity of Hope
Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“The Mendacity of Hope should help wake up all those Obama-voters who've been napping while the wars escalate, the recession deepens, and the environment goes straight to hell.” —Barbara Ehrenreich
From the former editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine comes a bold manifesto exposing President...
by Roger Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government. The book fills in logical gaps that were missing from Keynes' General Theory...
The Last Hunger Season
A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would...
by Roger Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do', says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a...
The Trouble with Markets
Saving Capitalism from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
New Updated and Expanded Edition
In this completely updated edition of this prescient and widely acclaimed book, the latest financial crisis is explained in a historical context. The Great Depression and other periods of economic downturn are investigated and exposed, as Roger Bootle walks...
Interpreting Macroeconomics
Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Interpreting Macroeconomics explores a variety of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. The book considers a number of historiographical and methodological positions, as well as analyzing various important episodes in the development of macroeconomics, before during and after the Keynesian...
by Roger Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The National Health Service, described by Nigel Lawson as Britain's only 'national religion', has never been more popular. So why is the government so desperate to reform it?
Last year, the Office of National Statistics reported higher public satisfaction with the NHS than at any time since...
Diaminds
Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.
Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum...
Prosperity for All
How to Prevent Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment and low growth rates. According to Roger E. A. Farmer, these theories can be divided into two leading schools of thought: the ideas of pre-Keynesian scholars...
by Roger Wyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
I was a landscape contractor - created my own design/build business. I learned "how it's done." I don't garden this way any more because I found a better way - a MUCH better way!I live in my garden now. It's alive. And so am I!