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Note de l'éditeur : "This short primer distils Ruchir Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent [...]
4th cover on publisher's website: "In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been working to create a connected world. They've integrated the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in [...]
4e de couv : "For over a century, anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures, uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. Now, a new generation of anthropologists are using these methods in a different context [...]
Rupal Patel, Author ; Jack Meaning, Author ; Bank of England, Author | London : Penguin Books | 2022Why are all my clothes made in Asia? How come I'm so much richer than my great-great-grandma? And what even is money? Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job, or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going to set [...]
Edward Lawrence Wheelwright, Author ; Bruce John McFarlane, Author | London : Penguin Books | Pelican books | 1970This is an essay on the political economy of modern Chinese society. Its theme is the role of ideology and the human factor in Chinese economic development. The authors are Australian economists. Between them, they have had broad experience i[...]
'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? Is the majority principle a workable rule for making decis[...]
The world stands at a crossroads. Either we continue on our path of environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and vast populations trapped in extreme poverty- or we choose international cooperation and sustainable development and avoid[...]
4th cover on publisher's website: "We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It [...]
4th cover on publisher's website: "An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism: 'It is not intelligent, it is not beautif[...]
Back cover: Volume 1: The quality of labour force and methods of training it have recently attracted the attention of economists. The education system is an important factor in economic growth, the degree of mobility of labour and the distri[...]
4th cover on publisher's website: "With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncert[...]
4th cover on publisher's website: "Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought[...]
