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“ak azeez”

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  • The Architecture of Reality

    by A.K Azeez ...
    This book is an argument, not a prophecy.It uses "psychohistory" in the plain-English sense: the study of how shared beliefs, incentives,fear, pride, and meaning-making shape large-scale events. Some writers use the wordpsychohistory to mean Asimov-style prediction. I do not. Human systems are too reflexive and tooadaptive for clockwork certainty. What we can do is build models that explain why ... Read more

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  • The Future of Capitalism

    Facing the New Anxieties

    by Paul Collier ...
    A top economist's "engaging and well-reasoned" look at how to save capitalism from itself—and from the twin threats of populism and socialism ( The Washington Post).Winner, Handelsblatt Prize for Best Business BookDeep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus struggling rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Post-Capitalist Society

    by Peter F. Drucker ...
    Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical affects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society,economics, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The European Dream

    How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Locust and the Bee

    Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soulful Science

    What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition

    by Diane Coyle ...
    For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking is being applied to the paradoxes of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

    Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

    by David Colander, Roland Kupers ...
    How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policyComplexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Human Societies

    An Introduction

    by Abram De Swaan ...
    Translated by Beverley Jackson ...
    This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences.Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. The book begins by asking: what do people need from one another; what do they need to survive and how do these needs make them dependent upon others? Subsequent chapters deal with ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Path to Hope

    by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel ...
    An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks

    by Paul Frijters ...
    Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Connexity

    How to Live in a Connected World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    CONNEXITY is the philosophical counterpart to Will Hutton's essentially political book. It looks at the profound tension that exists between two recent achievements of humanity: greater freedom (over how to live, who to love, what to believe and say, where to trade), and greater interdependence, or 'connexity' (through the financial markets, military structures, the internet, the ecosystem). This ... Read more

    $9.69 USD