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  • Capitalization

    A Cultural Guide

    de Collectif Csi ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor’s viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits, necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition?This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the ... Leer más

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  • The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information

    The History of Information in Modern Economics

    Information is a central concept in economics, and The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information explores its treatment in modern economics. The study of information, far from offering enlightenment, resulted in all matter of confusion for economists and the public. Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah argue that the conventional wisdom suggesting "economic rationality" was the core of modern economics ... Leer más

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  • Capital as Power

    A Study of Order and Creorder

    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

    Understand inequality in the modern world

    de 50Minutes ...
    Series series Book Review
    It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.Thomas Piketty’s 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was an immediately bestseller in the UK and US, and has been widely praised by both economists and the general public. Piketty provides a richly detailed account of the development of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lawlessness and Economics

    Alternative Modes of Governance

    Series series The Gorman Lectures in Economics
    How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state.In much of the world and through much ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

  • Specialization and Trade

    A Re-introduction to Economics

    de Arnold Kling ...
    Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. Their interpretations ... Leer más

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  • Mediation

    Negotiation by Other Moves

    When negotiation fails, mediation avails other moves for an amicable resolution. Whether you are a current or future mediator or a party to a conflict, this is your essential companion to the theory, concepts, and best practices of mediation.In a world ridden by social divisions, responsible resolution of conflicts is more timely than ever. What happens when parties are unable to negotiate an ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Codes of Finance

    Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank

    A behind-the-scenes account of the derivatives business at a major investment bankThe financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former employee of one of the world’s leading investment banks, takes readers behind the ... Leer más

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  • Money Talks

    Explaining How Money Really Works

    The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies, and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of how social relations, emotions, moral concerns, and institutions shape how we ... Leer más

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  • Uncertain Futures

    Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy

    Edición de Jens Beckert, Richard Bronk ...
    Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations ... Leer más

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  • Fictitious Capital

    How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future

    Traducido por David Broder ...
    How finance is a mechanism of social and political dominationThe 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the ... Leer más

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  • Stories of Capitalism

    Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

    de Stefan Leins ...
    The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies. ... Leer más

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