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Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam Chomsky
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate...
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that...
by Ha-Joon Chang
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist--a highly original guide to the global economy.
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism,Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics....
Welcome to the Urban Revolution
How Cities Are Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions....
The Great Divergence
America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul...
A Good Disruption
Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does it really have the potential to solve global problems such as low growth, inequality and environmental...
Keynes
The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II -and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct-and Keynes's doctrine...
A More Beautiful Question
The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science.
It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow...
The Cuba Wars
Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate-and as dysfunctional-as that of the United States and Cuba. In The Cuba Wars, Cuba expert Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits and conversations with both Cuban government officials and opposition leaders-plus key players in...
Stud
Adventures in Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky...
Girl in Glass
Dispatches from the Edge of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Winner of 2016 Books for a Better Life Award
A Washington Post Book Club Selection
A Public Books Favorite Book of 2015
When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lost one? Over months in the hospital, as...
by Andrew Reilly, Professor Alison Goodrum, Kim K. P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Key Concepts for the Fashion Industry is the first concise and accessible overview of fashion theories for students on any fashion course. Providing an easy understanding of the core concepts, from scarcity to conformity, this book offers clear, practical examples and accessible case studies, making...
The Social Atom
Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The...
The Health Gap
The Challenge of an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and...