Category - Business & Economics
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Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining a...
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth th...
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The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Steve Case, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Wave and cofounder of America Online shows how entrepreneurs across the country are bu...
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The Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business l...
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy...
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has...
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The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction BookMichael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, clearly and boldly describes what's at s...
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states—home to the poorest one billion ...
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Revised and updatedShortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardFrom one of the most important economic thinkers o...
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Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world—and t...
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opp...
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The New Geography Of Jobs
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In The New Geography of Jobs, award-winning Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti looks at the major shifts taking place in the US economy and reveal...
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Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing
PaperbackOriginal price $3.95 - Original price $3.95Original price $3.95$7.99$7.99 - $7.99Current price $7.99| /For almost 10,000 years of recorded history, most people had to eke out a living in pain and difficulty. But today, the deep poverty that was the...
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come ...
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Competitive Advantage of Nations
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed complete...
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Development as Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both...
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Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School of Economics in Chile
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the Chicago Boys. Following their training as economists at...
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The Bond Book, Third Edition: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More / Edition 3
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The bond buyer’s answer book—updated for the new economy “As in the first two editions, this third edition of The Bond Book continues to be the i...
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Rev...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution ...
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Brownfields Redevelopment: Case Studies and Concepts in Community Revitalization
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in al...
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The Post-Development Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /With the collapse of colonialism, the millions who had joined the struggle accepted their leaders' new call for 'development'. Little today remai...
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Essentials of Development Economics, Third Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents...
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Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters: From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million...
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