The undercover economist, exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car [Read excerpt]
Authors: Tim Harford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 2005-11-30
ISBN-10: 0195189779
ISBN-13: 9780195189773
This book offers the hidden story behind these and other questions, as economist Tim Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States ...
Authors: Xenophon
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published Date: 2004-06-17
ISBN-10: 1419160591
ISBN-13: 9781419160592
Isch. Surely we must include the slave to amorous affection.[11] Your woeful lover[12] is incapable of being taught attention to anything beyond one single ...
Authors: Leonard Neufeldt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1989
ISBN-10: 0195057899
ISBN-13: 9780195057898
Using Walden and "Life without Principle," as main examples, the book considers the questions of why and how Thoreau, who was very much shaped by his culture ...
Authors: Paul Anthony Samuelson, William A. Barnett
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published Date: 2007
ISBN-10: 1405157151
ISBN-13: 9781405157155
By focusing on the human side as well as the intellectual dimensions of how economists work and think, this collection of interviews with top economists of the ...
Authors: William Thomson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published Date: 2001
ISBN-10: 0262700794
ISBN-13: 9780262700795
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, ...
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade [Read excerpt]
Authors: Pietra Rivoli
Publisher: Wiley
Published Date: 2009-02-09
ISBN-10: 0470287160
ISBN-13: 9780470287163
Now updated and revised--including a discussions of environmental issue--this fascinating book illustrates crucial lessons in the debate on globalization.
Authors: Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1986
ISBN-10: 0198285353
ISBN-13: 9780198285359
This is the first biography of entrepreneur and economist Richard Cantillon whose major work, Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), remains one of ...
Authors: Walter Edward Williams
Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr
Published Date: 1995-01
ISBN-10: 0817993827
ISBN-13: 9780817993825
Williams writes thought-provoking essays on race, government, education, environment, law and society, international politics, and other controversial topics.
