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  • Access "How Do Good Health Technologies Get To Poor People In Poor Count"

    Access "How Do Good Health Technologies Get To Poor People In Poor Count"
     How Do Good Health Technologies Get To Poor People In Poor Count

    Frost, Laura

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674032156
    • Páginas: 235
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.21,80 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people ...

  • Republic Of Debtors "Bankruptcy In The Age Of American Independence"

    Republic Of Debtors "Bankruptcy In The Age Of American Independence"
     Bankruptcy In The Age Of American Independence

    Mann, Bruce H.

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674032415
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.21,80 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers, and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for ...

  • The Political Worlds Of Slavery And Freedom

    The Political Worlds Of Slavery And Freedom

    Hahn, Steven

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674032965
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.24,70 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Pulitzer Prize - winner Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War ...

  • The Conservative Turn "Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, And The Lessons Of Anti-Com"

    The Conservative Turn "Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, And The Lessons Of Anti-Com"
     Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, And The Lessons Of Anti-Com

    Kimmage, Michael

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674032583
    • Páginas: 418
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.49,45 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    "The Conservative Turn" tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on ...

  • A Nation Of Counterfeiters "Capitalists, con Men, And The Making Of The United States"

    A Nation Of Counterfeiters "Capitalists, con Men, And The Making Of The United States"
     Capitalists, con Men, And The Making Of The United States

    Mihm, Stephen

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674032446
    • Páginas: 472
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.21,80 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the ...

  • Starved For Science "How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out Of Africa"

    Starved For Science "How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out Of Africa"
     How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out Of Africa

    Paarlberg, Robert

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674033474
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.18,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In "Starved for Science" Robert Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current ...

  • To Serve God And Wal- Mart "The Making Of The Christian Free Enterprise"

    To Serve God And Wal- Mart "The Making Of The Christian Free Enterprise"
     The Making Of The Christian Free Enterprise

    Moreton, Bethany

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674033221
    • Páginas: 328
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.30,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America's devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, ...

  • Selling Sounds "The Commercial Revolution In American Music"

    Selling Sounds "The Commercial Revolution In American Music"
     The Commercial Revolution In American Music

    Suisman, David

    Harvard University Press (2009)

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    • EAN: 9780674033375
    • Páginas: 316
    • Fecha de edición: 2009

    pvp.33,40 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman's "Selling Sounds" explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Around the turn ...

  • Strategies Of Commitment And Other Essays

    Strategies Of Commitment And Other Essays

    Schelling, Thomas C.

    Harvard University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780674025677
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.23,60 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society, whether discussing smoking and other addictions, global warming, segregation, or nuclear war. Schelling - a 2005 ...

  • Rewarding Work "How To Restore Participation And Self-Support To Free Enterprise"

    Rewarding Work "How To Restore Participation And Self-Support To Free Enterprise"
     How To Restore Participation And Self-Support To Free Enterprise

    Phelps, Edmund S.

    Harvard University Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674026940
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.21,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Since the 1970s, a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the ...

  • The Dismal Science "How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community"

    The Dismal Science "How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community"
     How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community

    Marglin, Stephen

    Harvard University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780674026544
    • Páginas: 376
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.41,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and that ...

  • Valuing Children

    Valuing Children

    Folbre, Nancy

    Harvard University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780674026322
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.54,50 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets - primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the ...

  • Adam S Falacy "A Guide To Economic Theology"

    Adam S Falacy "A Guide To Economic Theology"
     A Guide To Economic Theology

    Foley, Duncan K.

    Harvard University Press (2008)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674027299
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.21,75 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." Like Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers", it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with ...

  • The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Olson, Mancur

    Harvard University Press (1971)

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    • EAN: 9780674537514
    • Páginas: 172
    • Fecha de edición: 1971

    pvp.32,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of ...

  • Adam'S Fallacy: a Guide To Economic Theology

    Adam'S Fallacy: a Guide To Economic Theology

    Foley, Duncan K.

    Harvard University Press (2006)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674023093
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.30,85 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." Like Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with ...

  • Capital Rules: The Construction Of Global Finance

    Capital Rules: The Construction Of Global Finance

    Abdelal, Rawi

    Harvard University Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674023697
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.60,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for ...

  • General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models, And Optimal Growth Theory

    General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models, And Optimal Growth Theory

    Bewley, Truman F.

    Harvard University Press (2007)

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    • EAN: 9780674022881
    • Páginas: 624
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.76,35 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    This book presents an original exposition of general equilibrium theory for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students of economics. It contains detailed discussions of economic efficiency, competitive equilibrium, the first and second welfare theorems, the Kuhn-Tucker ...

  • Prophet Of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter And Creative Destruction

    Prophet Of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter And Creative Destruction

    Mccraw,Thomas K.

    Harvard University Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674025233
    • Páginas: 736
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.42,00 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a ...

  • Gamer Theory

    Gamer Theory

    Wark,Mckenzie

    Harvard University Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674025196
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.26,15 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play yet cannot win? Welcome to gamespace. Gamespace is where and how we live today. ...

  • Commerce In Culture: The Sibao Book Trade In The Qing And Republican Periods

    Commerce In Culture: The Sibao Book Trade In The Qing And Republican Periods

    Brokaw,Cynthia J.

    Harvard University Press (2007)

    valoración

    • EAN: 9780674024496
    • Páginas: 500
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.58,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers ...