Economics
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Robert H. Frank [Frank, Robert H.]

6 THE BURDEN OF FALSE BELIEFS If you share my view that material prosperity is a good thing, there is one dimension of personal luck that transcends all others, which ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy April 30,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Michael Pompian

NOTES 1. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, “Choices, Values, and Frames,” American Psychologist 39 (1984): 341–50. Reprinted as Chapter 1 in Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, eds., Choices, Values, and ...
( Category: Introduction April 30,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Paul Krugman

PRESCRIPTION FOR FAILURE July 26, 2000 In denouncing President Clinton’s plan to extend Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and in touting their own counterproposal, Republicans have rolled out the usual ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Ulrich Boser [Boser, Ulrich]

In Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses, Ajax is a man of grit and strength, of muscle and devotion. He is the most athletic, most loyal soldier in the Greek army, and ...
( Category: Ethics April 29,2016 )
epub | | 2015-10-12 | Author:Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet, Michael Westlake

This bipolar view of the world, already questionable in 1992, is totally out of step with contemporary reality, in which emerging economies have shifted the center of gravity of the ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Reden, Sitta von [Reden, Sitta von]

Banking Banks through their functions of both exchanging and testing coins and providing credit lubricated the flow of cash. Once again, most scholars have discussed ancient banks against the commercial ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kaushik Basu [Basu, Kaushik]

Food Security for the Vulnerable I have not yet addressed the subject of the government’s special responsibility to the poor and vulnerable households, that is, objective (2), mentioned earlier in ...
( Category: Asian April 26,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Roger Thurow [Thurow, Roger]

FRANCIS WANJALA MAMATI was lost amid the towering maize stalks on his shamba. “Over here,” he shouted to his wife, Mary, who was coming to join him for a day ...
( Category: Kenya April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Tamara Draut

Work: Still Separate and Unequal The largest number of jobs that will be added to our economy in the future are going to be working-class jobs, requiring little education, if ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 25,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Martin Reeves & Knut Haanaes & Janmejaya Sinha [Reeves, Martin]

Leadership It’s more of the same with leadership, where, counterintuitively, shaping leaders gain clout and respect through willingness to cede a degree of control. Shaping leadership extends beyond the boundaries ...
( Category: Strategic Planning April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:E. P. Thompson [Thompson, E. P.]

Within two months his opinion had changed. There were three reasons. First, he received reports both of the ‘Black Lamp’ and of secret trade union organization, which were more circumstantial, ...
( Category: England April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Reich, Robert B. [Reich, Robert B.]

3 Why Can’t We Be Content with Less? Historically, America’s cultural obsession to consume has been tempered by the “higher virtues” of thrift and self-sufficiency. “Be industrious and frugal, and ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Rickards [Rickards, James]

The Paper Gold Market vs. the Physical Gold Market There’s another puzzle in this story. Investors assume that prices of goods are driven by the laws of supply and demand. ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Antoine van Agtmael

Optomed’s Smartscope retinal imaging device. Credit Optomed In addition to personal qualities—an ability to think differently, optimism, and persistence—the entrepreneur needs government assistance, marketing partners, and, very important, money. Kopsala ...
( Category: Development & Growth April 17,2016 )