Libros de: Columbia University Press

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  • Creating a Learning Society "A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress"

    Greenwald, Bruce Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231175494
    • Páginas: 432
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living ...

  • Charlie Munger "The Complete Investor"

    Griffin, Tren

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231170987
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.25,75 €

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    Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom"--a ...

  • Genealogy of American Finance

    Sylla, Richard Wright, Robert

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231170260
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.56,95 €

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    In this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than ...

  • The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets

    Roberts, Keith

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231153270
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.21,95 €

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    Understanding the origins of business is fundamental to grasping modern life, yet most historians look no further than the nineteenth century for their narratives. While the industrial revolution profoundly shaped business practice and much of ...

  • Rawls's Political Liberalism

    Brooks, Thom Nussbaum, Martha C.

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231149716
    • Páginas: 258
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.27,95 €

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    Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These ...

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    Sachs, Jeffrey D.

    Columbia University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780231173155
    • Páginas: 544
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.32,40 €

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    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a ...

  • The Economists' Voice 2.0 "The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More"

    Edlin, Aaron S. Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231160155
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

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    The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions. The Economists' Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health ...

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    Maskin, Eric Sen, Amartya

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231153287
    • Páginas: 168
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.18,90 €

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    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of ...

  • Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles

    Scheinkman, Jose A.

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231159029
    • Páginas: 128
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.18,85 €

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    As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles -- those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree ...

  • Creating a Learning Society "A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress"

    Greenwald, Bruce Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231152143
    • Páginas: 680
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.29,95 €

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    It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries ...

  • The Watchdog That Didn't Bark "The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism"

    Starkman, Dean

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231158183
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.24,95 €

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    In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He ...

  • The World's First Stock Exchange

    Petram, Lodewijk

    Columbia University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780231163781
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

    pvp.26,95 €

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    The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam's transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun ...

  • How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea

    Park, Yung Chul

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231165266
    • Páginas: 376
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.56,95 €

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    This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among ...

  • From the Silver Czech Tolar to a Worldwide Dollar "The Birth of the Dollar and Its Journey of Monetary Circulation"

    Vorel, Petr

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780880337052
    • Páginas: 270
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.65,55 €

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    This publication may be of especial interest for American readers in that, perhaps for the first time, the complex power and political relationships existing in Central Europe at the beginning of the early modern period, ...

  • New Perspectives on International Migration and Development

    Cortina, Jeronimo

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231156806
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.41,85 €

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    With contributions from leading scholars in international development, economics, political science, and sociology, this collection draws attention to migration's developmental impacts on sending and receiving societies. Through current case studies, contributors examine the interplay among ...

  • More Than you Know "Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places"

    Mauboussin, Michael J.

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231143738
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.17,50 €

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    Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics book by Strategy+Business. Now updated ...

  • Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks "One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity"

    Turak, August

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231160629
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.26,95 €

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    August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic ...

  • What I learned Losing a Million Dollars

    Paul, Jim

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231164689
    • Páginas: 172
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

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    Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all -- his fortune, his reputation, and his job -- in ...

  • The Best Business Writing

    Starkman, Dean

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231160759
    • Páginas: 568
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

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    An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "riveting and indispensable," The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff ( New York ...

  • The Ethical Economy "Rebuilding Value After the Crisis"

    Arvidsson, Adam Peitersen, Nicolai

    Columbia University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780231152648
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

    pvp.30,40 €

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    more ethical economic system is now possible, one that rectifies the crisis spots of our current downturn while balancing the injustices of extreme poverty and wealth. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, a scholar and an ...