Libros de: Allen Lane/Penguin

Mostrando 101 libros encontrados. (6 páginas).


  • Meme Wars "The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics"

    Adbusters

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846146985
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.30,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Over the last twenty years, "Adbusters" magazine has challenged consumerism, championed the environment and provided a platform for some of our greatest thinkers. In 2011, they instigated Occupy Wall Street, sparking a huge international movement. ...

  • Private Empire "ExxonMobil and American Power"

    Coll, Steve

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846146596
    • Páginas: 704
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.28,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In "Private Empire", Steve Coll, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of "Ghost Wars" and "The Bin Ladens", investigates the notoriously mysterious ExxonMobil Corporation and the secrets of the oil industry. In many of ...

  • How Much is Enough? "The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life"

    Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky, Robert

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846144486
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.22,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger ...

  • Breakout Nations "In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles"

    Sharma, Ruchir

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846145568
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.20,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The argument of "Breakout Nations" is that the astonishingly rapid growth over the last decade of the world's celebrated emerging markets is coming to an end. The era of easy money and easy growth is ...

  • The Price of Inequality

    Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2012)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846146930
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

    pvp.20,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate ...

  • Paper Promises "Money, Debt and the New World Order"

    Coggan, Philip

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2011)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846145100
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.22,76 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The world is drowning in debt, in paper promises. Can we stay afloat? In his masterful new book, Philip Coggan shows how the current financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very ...

  • Money and Power "How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World"
    How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

    Cohan, William D.

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2011)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846144998
    • Páginas: 672
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.17,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    When, in late 2008, the dust finally started to settle on one of the worst financial crises in history, only one Wall Street institution still stood virtually unassailed - Goldman Sachs. Why did Goldman survive, ...

  • Boomerang "The Meltdown Tour"
    The Meltdown Tour

    Lewis, Michael

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2011)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846144844
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.16,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Iceland, Greece and Ireland we know about. On Spain, Portugal and Italy we've heard the warnings. Britain is a fear rumbling in the distant background of precarious triple-A ratings. But surely Germany is safe. Isn't ...

  • The Bed of Procrustes "Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms"
    Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

    Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2010)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846144585
    • Páginas: 128
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.14,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek ...

  • Where Good Ideas Come From "The Natural History Of Innovation"
    The Natural History Of Innovation

    Johnson, Steven

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2010)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846140518
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.29,15 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In "Where Good Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, ...

  • The Vanishing Face Of Gaia "A Final Warning"
    A Final Warning

    Lovelock, James

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846141850
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.29,15 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Acclaim for "The Revenge of Gaia": 'The most important book for decades' - Andrew Marr. 'Riveting! a stark warning to mankind' - "The Times". 'Both entertaining and utterly terrifying, both thoughtful and constantly provocative! its ...

  • Freefall

    Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2010)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846142796
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2010

    pvp.21,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behaviour to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up.

  • The Idea Of Justice

    Sen, Amartya

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846141478
    • Páginas: 467
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.35,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of ...

  • Keynes "The Return Of The Master"
    The Return Of The Master

    Skidelsky, Robert

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846142581
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.22,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation ...

  • Too Big To Fail "Inside The Battle To Save Wall Street"
    Inside The Battle To Save Wall Street

    Ross, Andrew

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846142383
    • Páginas: 640
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.16,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment, account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret ...

  • How Markets Fail "The Logic Of Economic Calamities"
    The Logic Of Economic Calamities

    Cassidy, John

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846143007
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.28,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Why are financial markets and housing markets so prone to bubbles? Why doesn't rising prosperity make people happier? Why do many people contribute generously to charity but fail to save for their own retirement? What ...

  • Masters And Commanders

    Roberts, Andrew

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780141029269
    • Páginas: 672
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.15,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    "Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did ...

  • The Storm Of War "A New History Of The Second World War"
    A New History Of The Second World War

    Roberts, Andrew

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780713999709
    • Páginas: 808
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.35,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    On 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached ...

  • The Return Of Depression Economics

    Krugman, Paul R.

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2009)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846142390
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.14,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In this fully updated classic, Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics compares the current financial downturn to the economic crisis in Asia and Latin America during the 90's and how both ...

  • Hot, Flat And Crowded "Why The World Needs a Green Revolution - And How We Can Renew Ou"
    Why The World Needs a Green Revolution - And How We Can Renew Ou

    Friedman, Thomas L.

    Allen Lane/Penguin (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9781846141294
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.17,25 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - ...