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The world’s first stock exchange
The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam's transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of com...
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American capitalism
American Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the ...
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Shapeholders
Many companies fail to anticipate activism, and they flounder on first contact. Mark R. Kennedy examines the different languages that shapeholders and companies speak and their contrasting metrics for what constitutes acceptable business practice. Executives, he argues, must be visionaries who fi...
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Gender and the dismal science
This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publi...
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Venture investing in science
How venture capital spurs scientific discovery, and what we miss when we don’t invest.
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When principles pay
Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by ...
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Genealogy of american finance
An immersive history of fifty major American banks and their role in transforming the nation into a leading world power.
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From financial crisis to global recovery
In this book, Padma Desai makes the complexities of economic policy and financial reform accessible to a wide audience. Merging a compelling narrative with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary poli...
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Renewable energy
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implication...
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Saving ourselves from big car
This book exposes how “Big Car”—the complex of companies in the automobile, oil, insurance, media, and concrete industries that promote and entrench car dependence—has pursued profit at the expense of the common good.
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Accounting for value
Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value. Laying aside many of the tools of modern finance—...
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The activist director
How active boards ensure the life of a company.
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The future of work in developing countries
Bringing together leading international scholars, this book examines the employment challenge in low- and middle-income countries from multiple perspectives.
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The origins of business, money, and markets
To understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia. In the...
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The market
Matt Watson unpacks the concept of the market to ask what does it really mean to allow ourselves to submit to market forces. This book provides a major contribution to a deeper appreciation of the dominant economic language of our time, challenging the idea that we can simply defer to the “logic ...
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Money and promises
In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker, executive, and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the complex relationship between states and banks that has changed the world.
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The pan-pearl river delta
In June 2004, top leaders from Guangdong and the surrounding eight provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, together with those of the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, met in Hong Kong, Macao, and Guangzhou and gave birth to Pan-PRD...
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Non-consensus investing
At a time when many proclaim the death of active investing, Rupal J. Bhansali makes a call for its renaissance. Non-Consensus Investing is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand why active investing disappointed and how it can succeed.
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Fda in the twenty-first century
Addresses perennial and new problems and the improvements the FDA can make to better serve the public good.
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Regulating banks
In this analysis of the banking sector, Andrew Whitworth argues that the regulatory impulse of policy makers since the financial crash has inevitably led to greater instability. He shows that the political response to change regulation influences the nature of banks as much as their behavior.
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Acts of god and man
Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and other dis...
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Transatlantic speculations
Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of economic and moral order. She maps the dual “transatlantic speculations”: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpr...
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The most important thing
"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren BuffettHoward Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is toda...
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Cultural economics
Cultural Economics analyzes the contribution to and role of the creative industries and their products and services in the overall economy. In this fascinating introduction to the field, Christiane Hellmanzik illuminates the challenges that the creative industries present for economic analysis.
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