Libros de: Norton

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  • Naked Statistics "Stripping the Dread from the Data "

    Wheelan, Charles

    Norton (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780393347777
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

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    The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called 'sexy'. And with good reason - from political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world ...

  • Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited "Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump "

    Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Norton (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780393355161
    • Páginas: 528
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    "Accessible, provocative, and highly readable." -Alan Cowell, NEW YORK TIMES
    In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization's new discontents in the ...

  • The End of Alchemy "Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy"

    King, Mervyn

    Norton (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780393247022
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    "Mervyn King may well have written the most important book to come out of the financial crisis. Agree or disagree, King's visionary ideas deserve the attention of everyone from economics students to heads of state." ...

  • Paper "Paging Through History"

    Kurlansky, Mark

    Norton (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780393353709
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    With the world on the cusp of 'going paperless', Mark Kurlansky examines what paper means to civilisation. Through tracing paper's evolution, he challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay.

  • Machine, Platform, Crowd "Harnessing the Digital Revolution "

    Brynjolfsson, Erik Mcafee, Andrew

    Norton (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780393254297
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leaders guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.


    We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better ...

  • From Voting to Violence "Democratization and Nationalist Conflict "

    Snyder, Jack

    Norton (2001)

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    • EAN: 9780393974812
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2001

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    With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many proclaimed the triumph of liberal democracy as they watched democratization sweep through formerly authoritarian countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and East Asia. Yet the ...

  • The Limits of Organization

    Arrow,Kenneth J.

    Norton (1974)

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    • EAN: 9780393093230
    • Páginas: 92
    • Fecha de edición: 1974

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    The tension between what we wish for and what we can get, between values and opportunities, exists even at the purely individual level. A hermit on a mountain may value warm clothing and yet be ...

  • Field Experiments "Design, Analysis, and Interpretation"

    Gerber, Alan S. Green, Donald P.

    Norton (2012)

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    • EAN: 9780393979954
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2012

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    Written by two leading experts on experimental methods, this concise text covers the major aspects of experiment design, analysis, and interpretation in clear language. Students learn how to design randomized experiments, analyze the data, and ...

  • We Wanted Workers "Unraveling the Immigration Narrative"

    Borjas, George

    Norton (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780393249019
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration ...

  • Platform Revolution "How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy"

    Choudary, Sangeet Paul Parker, Geoffrey Van Alstyne, Marshall W.

    Norton (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780393354355
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    This publication delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms use technology to match producers and consumers in a multisided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value. It explores the what, how ...

  • Something for Nothing "Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street "

    O'Hara, Maureen

    Norton (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780393285512
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    In 2001, Goldman Sachs structured a financial contract to allow the Greek government to appear to have less debt than it actually did. Years later, when the Eurozone crisis erupted, Goldman's actions were seen to ...

  • Economics Rules "The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science"

    Rodrik, Dani

    Norton (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780393353419
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at ...

  • The Second Machine Age "Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies"

    Brynjolfsson, Erik Mcafee, Andrew

    Norton (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780393350647
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and ...

  • Digital Cosmopolitans "Why We Think the Internet Connects Us, Why it Doesn't, and How to Rewire it"

    Zuckerman, Ethan

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393350326
    • Páginas: 322
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    As the Internet expands, we assume that our ability to communicate with others, our social connections, increase likewise. In Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman draws on current trends and the latest research to show us how ...

  • The Great Transition "Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy"

    Brown, Lester R.

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393350555
    • Páginas: 193
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled ...

  • The Myth of America's Decline "Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies"

    Joffe, Josef

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780871408464
    • Páginas: 354
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    America-bashing predates America: French Enlightenment philosophies claimed that the colony was doomed and one critic reported that the colony's population was "astonishingly idiotic [and] enervated". As the United States became a superpower after the Second ...

  • Our America "A Hispanic History of the United States"

    Fernandez Armesto, Felipe

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393349825
    • Páginas: 417
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Overlooking the significance of America's Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfolding east to west, beginning with the first settlers in Jamestown. In an absorbing ...

  • Leadership "Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers"

    Samet, Elizabeth D.

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393239690
    • Páginas: 752
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Elizabeth D. Samet brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a teacher and her belief in the vital role of the humanities in cultivating leaders. Here, Samet explores the connection between literature and leadership. ...

  • Contraband "Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century"

    Cohen, Andrew Wender

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393065336
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    In the frigid winter of 1875, federal agents tracked Charles L. Lawrence, an intimate of Boss Tweed and the most promiscuous smuggler in American history. Leading a network spanning four continents and lasting half a ...

  • The China Challenge "Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power"

    Christensen, Thomas J.

    Norton (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780393081138
    • Páginas: 402
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Many see China's rise as a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues instead that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while eliciting its global cooperation. ...