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La lectura de esta obra permite conocer, a través de doce capítulos, las dinámicas sociales y económicas de la caficultura en la Gran Cuenca del Caribe, esta macrorregión que nuestro nobel de litera……続きを見る

This book explores the role of the informal sector at the beginning of the structural transformation of the Indian economy. It highlights the dynamic nature of the informal sector and the crucial ro……続きを見る

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and markets In just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a tiny experiment operated from a Volkswagen van to ……続きを見る

A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek’s most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring f……続きを見る

Winner of the Bruss Real Estate Book Award His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck Riviera. So Ryan Dezember settled in and bought a home nearby himself. Then ……続きを見る

India’s Finance Ministers: Stumbling into Reforms (From 1977 to 1998) is the second volume in the series of books on some of India’s unforgettable finance ministers. Analysing the role of India's fi……続きを見る

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama a……続きを見る

Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks’ proposal that a realistic monetary ……続きを見る

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some……続きを見る

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment ……続きを見る

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller……続きを見る

A History of China's Financial Thought presents the history and evolution of China's financial thought across its dynasties to the 20th century. Being the first work to cover both the ancient and mo……続きを見る

“Powerful as well as highly engagingーa brilliant book.” ーAmartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for w……続きを見る

The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its eco……続きを見る

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, som……続きを見る

This book provides historical, theoretical, and biographical perspectives on two giants of contemporary economics, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). The former French bu……続きを見る

This book is the first one to describe the entire history of the video game industry in Japan. The industry consists of multiple marketsーfor PCs, home consoles, arcades, cellular phones and smart p……続きを見る

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how r……続きを見る

“Ótimo panorama sobre a evolução do pensamento econômico, com muito debate sobre o papel do governo.” – Quartz “Uma maravilha da escrita histórica para o grande público, com humor e a quantidade cer……続きを見る

** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2024 ** WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY ** **This is the authoritative hi……続きを見る

**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens. In this star……続きを見る

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he bec……続きを見る

This study analyses the economic thought in Japan in the critical period from 1930 to 1945. It pays particular attention to how the contemporary Japanese received European and American ideas about t……続きを見る

This book describes the functions frequently used in deep neural networks. For this purpose, 37 activation functions are explained both mathematically and visually, and given with their LaTeX implem……続きを見る

Healing Multicultural America (1993) looks at a group of Mexican immigrants who managed to understand and use the US democratic system to gain access to the ‘American Dream’. The book aims to assist……続きを見る

Nell’epoca fra le due guerre, emerge a Vienna una nuova generazione di economisti che trasforma le teorie marginaliste di Carl Menger, e di altri studiosi della seconda metà dell’Ottocento, in una v……続きを見る

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror populat……続きを見る

In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the ……続きを見る

Why America's public-private mortgage giants threaten the world economyーand what to do about it The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping governme……続きを見る

Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's ……続きを見る