Tag: Economist

Economics in America An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFRJSV94 | 2023 | 8 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Angus Deaton
Narrator: Angus Deaton

When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times-from poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation’s uniquely disastrous health care system-and narrates Deaton’s own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.

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Piero Sraffa, Unorthodox Economist (1898-1983) A Biographical Essay


Free Download Jean-Pierre Potier, "Piero Sraffa, Unorthodox Economist (1898-1983): A Biographical Essay"
English | 2015 | pages: 119 | ISBN: 1138880868, 0415059593 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Piero Sraffa’s work has had a lasting impact on economic theory and yet we know surprisingly little about the man behind it. This is the first intellectual biography of Sraffa and it details his working relationship with thinkers as diverse as Gramsci, Keynes, Wittgenstein as well as discussing the genesis of his major works.

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Thinking Like an Economist How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy


Free Download Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman, Suzie Althens, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09RQZ64SJ | 12 hours and 3 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 331 Mb
For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking – an "economic style of reasoning" – became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.
Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment.

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Negotiation An A-Z Guide The Economist [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B00EPY3FPY | 2013 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 207 MB
Author: Gavin Kennedy
Narrator: David Thorpe

The new essential guide from The Economist. Almost every aspect of business – and indeed human life – involves negotiating skills, whether you are striking a deal, organising a team working on a project, seeking a pay rise or a pay-off, or simply settling such important matters as who is going to do the shopping or the household chores. This witty and intelligent guide looks at the theory and practice of negotiating and provides a wealth of illuminating insights into the skills and psychology of negotiation that can make all the difference to how successful you are. Its entries cover such topics, terms and jargon as: Avoidance-Avoidance Model, Bagatelle, Compromise Agreement, Dirty Tricks, Expectations, Frontal Assault, Guanxi, Hooker’s Principle, Interpersonal Orientation, Killer Questions, Listening, Mother Hubbard, Noah’s Ark, Offer They Must Refuse, Pendulum Arbitration, Quivering Quill, Russian Front, Salami, Tit-for-Tat, Unconditional Offer, Vulnerability, What If?, Yesable Proposition, and Zeuthen’s Conflict Avoidance Model.

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Economist With a Public Purpose Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith


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2000 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415212928 | PDF | 3 MB
This text discusses the continuing relevance of one of the most prominent economists of the twentieth century. The contributors explore the continuing relevance of Galbraith’s arguments to current controversies and problems.

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