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ISBN-13: 9780691148328 (ISBN-10: 0691148325)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 23 Jan 2011
Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. This book takes a look at the globalization of the art world and the changing face of the business, offering an analysis of how investors speculate in the market and how emerging art forms such as video and installation have been drawn into the commercial sphere.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148427 (ISBN-10: 0691148422)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 09 Jan 2011
Describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to the late twentieth century. This text examines how important economists have reflected on the sometimes conflicting goals of efficient resource use and socially acceptable income distribution.
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ISBN-13: 9780691140636 (ISBN-10: 0691140634)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 09 Jan 2011
An introductory textbook that describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the late twentieth century.
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ISBN-13: 9780691133539 (ISBN-10: 0691133530)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 30 Dec 2010
The efficiency of financial markets depends on the operation of core infrastructure - exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. This book examines how markets are, and should be, run. It evaluates the similarities and differences between exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148199 (ISBN-10: 0691148198)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010
Nearly forty per cent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? This book explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148205 (ISBN-10: 0691148201)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148212 (ISBN-10: 069114821X)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010
Presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation. This book contains an analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. By applying this common methodology to disparate subjects, it produces significant cross-fertilization and yields solutions to previously intractable problems.
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ISBN-13: 9780691145723 (ISBN-10: 0691145725)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 20 Dec 2010
Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. This book explores the critical role of human migration since humans first departed Africa some fifty thousand years ago - how the circulation of ideas and technologies has benefited communities and how the movement of people across oceans and continents has fueled economies.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148175 (ISBN-10: 0691148171)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Nov 2010
Argues that we must restore genuine decision-making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, this title challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management.
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ISBN-13: 9780691148854 (ISBN-10: 0691148856)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Nov 2010
Dealer banks - that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J P Morgan and Goldman Sachs - are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. This book examines how these banks collapse and how we can prevent the need to bail them out.
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