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How can developing countries grow their economies Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In this book, the author - the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank - focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves.

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Smart Society offers a detailed blueprint for how the United States can recast its human capital policies to make all Americans--not just a privileged elite--smarter and more successful than ever before, at the same time stemming the size and cost of the nation's "safety net."

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Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The So

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We are on the verge of a big shift to a new kind of economy in which entrepreneurship and innovation range freely across public and private sectors. The authors gather stories from across the globe highlighting the new players, the new currencies, and the disruptive business models that make up this new solution economy.

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Examines how developments in economics and the social sciences lead to greater government intrusion in our private lives. Exploring how behavioral economics contributes to the excessive rise of paternalistic interventions, this title presents a controversial challenge to the prevailing currents in economic and political discourse.

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An essential introduction to American economic history from 1929 to the present. -- .

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This work argues that right-wing claims that the government are sucking the lifeblood from the US economy derive their persuasiveness from popular allegories and metaphors which distort understanding. It offers alternative metaphors to provide an analysis of the reforms needed by the US.

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Many warn that the next stage of globalization - the offshoring of research and development to China and India - threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. This title shows how wrong the doomsayers are. It explains why know-how developed abroad enhances the prosperity at home.

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The author believes that governments, certain academics, banks, and non-governmental organizations (nonprofits) are working in a coordinated way to stop you from using cash.

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Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office - or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands This title argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as - if not more than - finance, real estate, and law.

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Deals with the relationship between ethics and economics in Adam Smith's thinking. This title focuses on the devices Smith uses to ground his economics in broadly ethical and social categories.

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States that no book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.

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Examines the forces for change, analyzes their impact over the course of the next twenty-five years, and shares a vision of the social, economic, and political conditions of the future.

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By examining the dramatic impact of James Wolfensohn, one of the most powerful Australians on the world stage, since he took over as President of the World Bank in 1995, this book explores the challenges and contradictions of the West's efforts to enlarge the world's wealth in an age of globalisation and global terror.