Category: Economics

Alan Krueger, a former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain key principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives.

The music industry is a leading indicator of today's economy; it is among the first to be disrupted by the latest wave of technology, and examining the ins and outs of how musicians create and sell new songs and plan concert tours offers valuable lessons for what is in store for businesses and employees in other in...
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Viking: Oct-09

Seller ID: 129501

ISBN: 670021253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Viking: Oct-09

Seller ID: 472155

ISBN: 670021253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

By: Andrew W. Lo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: May-17

Seller ID: 436799

ISBN: 691135142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Arthur R. Kroeber

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Apr-16

Seller ID: 490780

ISBN: 190239034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bastiat Collection

By: Bastiat, Claude

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 394593

ISBN: 1610162005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Economic Sophisms

By: Bastiat, Frederic

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 391885

ISBN: 910614148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

By: Baumol, WIlliam J.

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 359583

ISBN: 300179286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

By: Beattie, Alan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jan-13

Seller ID: 485134

ISBN: 1594484449

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A "provocative...persuasive" (The New York Times) book that examines countries' economic destinies.

In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor.

He also addresses larger questions about why they make the choices they do, and what those mean for the future of our global economy. But despite the heady subject matter, False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroe...
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