2012 Norton

The Great Recession is more than four years old - and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge - all the ingredients for prosperity ...

2012 Norton

Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel s reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. With 1.5 million copies sold, A Random Walk Down Wall ...

2011 Norton

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed ...

2011 Norton

Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative'and destructive'glory.''The New York Times Book Review With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, ...

2011 Norton

The only fully modern macroeconomics text on the market and the most accessible one for undergraduates. Macroeconomics brings together up-to-date coverage of the ongoing economic crisis and the concepts behind macroeconomics today into a teachable, ...

2011 Norton

Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will welcome Burton G. Malkiel's reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio, ...

2011 Norton

A field guide to the visionaries—and the fans—who are reinventing the art of storytelling.Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are ...

2011 Norton

Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center. From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the ...

2011 Norton

The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene.The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. ...

2010 Norton

A new textbook by Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, Introduction to Public Policy uses economic principles to demonstrate that sound public policy occurs when unfettered private markets provide the greatest good for the greatest ...

2010 Norton

Mathematics for Economists, a new text for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in economics, is a thoroughly modern treatment of the mathematics that underlies economic theory. An abundance of applications to current economic analysis, ...

2010 Norton

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized ...

2010 Norton

2010 Norton

Today's increasingly competitive marketplace is filled with business transactions that include elements of both negotiations and auctions, yet the received wisdom on deal-making treats these two mechanisms separately. Guhan Subramanian explores the ubiquitous situation in ...

2010 Norton

The New York Times bestseller: A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe.

2010 Norton

A supplemental book of problems and exercises keyed to the text.

2010 Norton

Brilliantly demonstrated in "Thinking Strategically" [ISBN 978 0 393 31035 1], game theory is bursting with lessons for us all ("The Observer"). Here the authors provide the long-awaited sequel. Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. ...

2010 Norton

With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what ...

2010 Norton

"Any reader who aspires to be scientifically literate will find this a good starting place."-Publishers Weekly

2010 Norton

Here, the news graphics director at "The Wall Street Journal" gives a step-by-step guide to executing clear and concise graphics for everyone from the average PowerPoint user to the sophisticated professional, showing how to use ...