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Why Nations Fail
Profile 2012; US$ 40.00Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to... more...
IB Economics
Oxford University Press 2011; US$ 42.82Thoroughly updated for the 2011 syllabus, including a brand new student CD, this core resource is now even more accessible and engaging. Suitable for HL and SL, it thoroughly covers the quantitative component of the new syllabus, and contains up-to-date and global case studies which link theory to worldwide issues that will resonate with students. more...
The Romantic Economist
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00How economists and other social scientists can broaden their analytical repertoire to encompass the vital role of sentiments, language, and imagination. more...
Trust
Free Press 2008; US$ 18.00In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," he explains the social principles... more...
Macroeconomics for MBAs and Masters of Finance
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 43.00An innovative new textbook that provides a concise explanation of the foundations of modern macroeconomic theory and its methods. more...
The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book offers a comprehensive overview of the structure, strategy and methods of assessment of orthodox theoretical economics. more...
Public Choice III
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 47.00This book represents a revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. All of the major topics of public choice are covered. more...
Behavioral Economics: Risikoeinstellungen in der Anlageberatung
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 14.32In wirtschaftlich turbulenten Zeiten treten häufig negative Kursbewegungen an den internationalen Finanzmärkten auf, mit denen viele Privatanleger nicht gerechnet haben und die sie nicht für möglich gehalten hätten. So haben aktuell 71 % der Befragten einer Studie wohl auf Grund derartiger Entwicklungen zumindest teilweise das Vertrauen in das Wirtschafts-... more...
Animal Spirits
Campus Verlag 2009; US$ 23.13Hauptbeschreibung Viel zu lange hat die Ökonomie einen der wichtigsten Faktoren im wirtschaftlichen Agieren von Menschen vernachlässigt: die Animal Spirits, also die nicht-rationalen Aspekte unseres Handelns. Ein großer Fehler, sagen George A. Akerlof und Robert J. Shiller, dessen Folgen wir in der Wirtschaftskrise täglich neu zu spüren bekommen.... more...
Das menschliche Minimum
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 37.46Hauptbeschreibung Globale Gerechtigkeit ist in der heutigen Philosophie ein zentrales Thema. Allerdings werden in der bisherigen Diskussion nicht westliche Ansätze kaum berücksichtigt. Anke Graneß zeigt am Beispiel des kenianischen Philosophen Henry Odera Oruka, wie wichtig eine interkulturelle Öffnung des Diskurses ist. Für Odera Oruka steht die... more...









