Libros de: Columbia University Press

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  • Confronting Inequality "How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth"

    Berg, Andrew Loungani, Prakash Ostry, Jonathan David

    Columbia University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780231174695
    • Páginas: 192
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the ...

  • Narrative and Numbers "The Value of Stories in Business"

    Damodaran, Aswath

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231180481
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that ...

  • Toward a Just Society "Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics "

    Guzman, Martin

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231186728
    • Páginas: 565
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world's greatest economists. He has made fundamental contributions to economic theory in areas such as inequality, the implications of imperfect and asymmetric information, and competition, and he has been ...

  • Retirement and Its Discontents "Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can "

    Silver, Michelle Pannor

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231188562
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    In the popular imagination, retirement promises a well-deserved rest'idle days spent traveling, volunteering, pursuing hobbies, or just puttering around the house. But as the nature of work has changed, becoming not just a means of ...

  • Facebook Society "Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves"

    Simanowski, Roberto

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231182720
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Facebook claims that it is building a 'global community.' Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying that social-media platforms have altered social interaction, political life, and outlooks on the world, ...

  • Data Love "The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies"

    Simanowski, Roberto

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231177276
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out ...

  • Social Value Investing "A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships"

    Buffett, Howard W. Eimicke, William

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231182904
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of societys most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our worlds problems may seem too great and too complex to solve ' inequality, climate ...

  • Game Theory and Climate Change

    Chander, Parkash

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231184649
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Despite the growing consensus on the need for action to counteract climate change, complex economic and political forces have so far prevented international actors from making much headway toward resolving the problem. Most approaches to ...

  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Ocampo, Jose Antonio Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231185448
    • Páginas: 408
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems'the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even ...

  • The Peoples Money "How China Is Building a Global Currency"

    Subacchi, Paola

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231173476
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Many of the world's major economies boast dominant international currencies. Not so for China. Its renminbi has lagged far behind the pound, the euro, and the dollar in global circulation'and for good reason. China has ...

  • Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt

    Cowen, David J. Sylla, Richard

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231184564
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to ...

  • American Capitalism "New Histories"

    Beckert, S. Desan, Christine

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231185240
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power ...

  • Economic Thought "A Brief History"

    Kurz, Heinz

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231172592
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and ...

  • Reset "Business and Society in the New Social Landscape"

    Carmichael, Barie Rubin, James

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231178242
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    As consumers, our access to'and appetite for'information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, we scrutinize the companies behind familiar products and are disappointed when their actions do not ...

  • Earth at Risk "Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability"

    Henry, Claude Tubiana, Laurence

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231162524
    • Páginas: 376
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    We are squandering our planets natural capital'its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability'at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though ...

  • The Fracking Debate "The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution"

    Raimi, Daniel

    Columbia University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780231184861
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically'thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as 'fracking.' This rapid increase has generated ...

  • A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

    Griffin, Tren

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231184823
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill ...

  • Karl Polanyi "A Life on the Left"

    Dale, Gareth

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231176095
    • Páginas: 402
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to ...

  • Wall Streeters "The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance"

    Morris, Edward

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231170550
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics--many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, ...

  • Life and Money "The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics"

    Tellmann, Ute

    Columbia University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780231182263
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of ...