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The fracking debate
Daniel Raimi gives a balanced and accessible view of oil and gas development, clearly and thoroughly explaining the key issues surrounding the shale revolution. The Fracking Debate provides the evidence and context that have so frequently been missing from discussion of the future of oil and gas ...
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Rational investing
Two veteran investment professionals demystify the role of luck in asset management.
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The future of management
The world is standing on the very edge of the fastest industrial revolution ever. A revolution which will rapidly increase the efficiency of many production processes. Automation (both mechanical and the one happening with computer processes) will reduce the demand for human work and release a hu...
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Harvard square
Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime Harvard Square denizen, tells the crazy, complicated love story of one quirky little marketplace and in the process, reveals the hidden love story Americans everywhere have long had with their ...
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The accelerating decline in america's high-skilled workforce
Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States...
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Narrative and numbers
How to connect business value to story.
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Devaluing to prosperity
Experts have long questioned the effect of currency undervaluation on overall GDP growth. They have viewed the underlying basis for this policy—intervention in currency markets to keep the price of the home currency cheap—as doomed to failure on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Moreover, t...
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Sovereign wealth funds in resource economies
Sovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies explains the fiscal rules and institutional structures that can make SWFs thrive, providing a practical and theoretical guide to their optimal use in resource-revenue management. Khalid Alsweilem and Malan Rietveld's institutional perspective examines ...
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Pause to think
This book is a practical and accessible introduction to mental models, teaching readers how to harness their power to think more clearly, make better decisions, and learn more effectively.
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Foreign direct investment and tax competition
The author first assesses the nature and extent of the international mobility of foreign direct investment (FDI), based on the operations of US multinational corporations abroad (production, employment, and capital stock), not simply on financial flows of foreign affiliates. He considers whether ...
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Rescuing retirement
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. It offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
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Threatening property
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating sepa...
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Facing up to low productivity growth
This volume analyze the impact of sustained lower productivity growth on public finances, social protection, trade, capital flows, wages, and inequality. It concludes that slow productivity growth could aggravate inequality and increase concentration of market power and also proposes ways that co...
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The ceo's boss
The CEO’s Boss is the definitive guide to a productive working relationship between corporate boards and CEOs. In this revised edition, William M. Klepper renews the paradigm set forth in The CEO’s Boss, with new case studies of companies such as Wells Fargo, BP, Hewlett-Packard, and Proctor &...
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Berkshire beyond buffett
An insightful look into Berkshire Hathaway’s unique corporate culture and vast system of enduring values.
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The economics of air pollution in china
The Economics of Air Pollution in China makes the case that the trade-off between growth and environment is not inevitable. In his ambitious proposal to tackle severe air pollution, Ma Jun argues that in targeting pollution, China has a real opportunity to undertake significant structural economi...
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Short selling
A practical guide to the risky practice of betting against stocks.
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Pensions, social security, and the privatization of risk
As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. In this timely volume, Mitchell A. Orenstein and his distinguished colleagues Gary Burtless, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Alicia Munnell argue...
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The exchange rate system and the imf
Global currency markets have remained unsettled. The dollar hit record lows against both the yen and the mark in 1995. The Mexican crisis led to a free fall of the peso. Renewed tensions in the European Monetary System required devaluations in Spain and Portugal. It is thus fortuitous that the wo...
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The state strikes back
Nicholas R. Lardy argues that China’s future growth prospects are shadowed by the specter of resurgent state dominance. This book mobilizes new data to trace how President Xi Jinping has consistently championed state-owned or controlled enterprises, propping up ailing, underperforming companies t...
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Banking on basel
The turmoil in financial markets that resulted from the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States indicates the need to dramatically transform regulation and supervision of financial institutions. Would these institutions have been sounder if the 2004 Revised Framework on International C...
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From vision to action
Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks provides a practitioner’s guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.
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