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Blind Spots
Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how...
by Robert J. Shiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market...
Fraud
An American History from Barnum to Madoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive...
Beauty Pays
Why Attractive People Are More Successful
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure...
A Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and...
The Founder's Dilemmas
Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and...
Nonparametric Econometrics
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Until now, students and researchers in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics and econometrics have had to turn to the latest journal articles to keep pace with these emerging methods of economic analysis. Nonparametric Econometrics fills a major gap by gathering together the most up-to-date...
by Stephen J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This book shows how current and recent market prices convey information about the probability distributions that govern future prices. Moving beyond purely theoretical models, Stephen Taylor applies methods supported by empirical research of equity and foreign exchange markets to show how daily and...
The Battle of Bretton Woods
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the...
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development...
by Robert H. Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will...
by Robert Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1992
This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have...
The Difference
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (New Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone?...
Through the Eye of a Needle
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth...