State power and world markets

the international political economy

Financial management

a primer

Financial Management: A Primer is a short and simple text that makes arcane financial data and reports crystal-clear for the nonfinance specialist. Designed to bring the reader up to speed on the basics of modern finance and the latest practices and techniques, Financial Management is ...

The roaring nineties

a new history of the world´s most prosperous decade

Turning his attention to the United States, Stiglitz argues that much of what we understood about the prosperity of the 1990s is wrong. Although jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell and poverty was reduced, this book asserts that this decade actually laid the foundations ...

Fear's empire

war, terrorism, and democracy

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

Reinventing the bazaar

a natural history of markets

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they ...

America's art museums

a traveler's guide to great collections large and small

More than a practical guide, this text presents information not only on America's great museums but also on the history of art in America. It gives a tour of the physical spaces and the museums' most beloved or noteworthy works.

Strategy. An introduction to game theory

Naked economics

undressing the dismal science

Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all the discussion of ...

Vital signs 2002

the trends that are shaping our future

Reinventing the bazaar

a natural history of markets

Next

the future just happened

Winning the talent wars

how to build a lean, flexible, high-performance workplace

Bold new ideas that help managers get the work done in the age of flexible staffing. You are scrambling to recruit great people. So is everyone else. No sooner do you bring people in and train them up to speed than you have to start ...

Japan

a modern history

The earth policy reader

Descripcion: In The Earth Policy Reader, award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem. Brown explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity with its abundance and falling cost is ...

Globalization

challenge and opportunity

Principles of microeconomics

Chapter Index: Chapter 1: Economics and the New Economy Chapter 2: Thinking Like an Economist Chapter 3: Trade Chapter 4: Demand, Supply, and Price Chapter 5: Using Demand and Supply Chapter 6: The Consumption Decision Chapter 7: The Firm's Costs Chapter 8: The Competitive ...

White collar sweatshop

the deterioration of work and its rewards in corporate americana

In the 1990s, before the bubble of the "miracle economy" burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention has focused on dot-com disasters, massive layoffs, and explosions of corporate violence. But for those millions of Americans who have neither ...

Economics of development

This textbook, from present and past members of the Harvard Institute of International Development, emphasizes sustainable development, trade and industrialization, and managing an open economy.

Principles of Microeconomics

For the Third Edition, 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz joins forces with new coauthor Carl Walsh, who brings both macroeconomic expertise and teaching savvy to the project. Together, Stiglitz and Walsh thoroughly integrate contemporary economics into the traditional curriculum. Since the publication of Economics, Second ...