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“gwilliam ken”

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  • Africa's Transport Infrastructure: Mainstreaming Maintenance and Management

    by Gwilliam Ken ...
    This book presents and analyzes the results of a comprehensive collection of data on the extent and condition of transport infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa identifies the reasons for poor performance and estimates future financing needs.The transport facilities of Sub-Saharan Africa were built primarily for the colonial exploitation of mineral and agricultural resources. The chief goal of road ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Nations

    Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

    by Ruchir Sharma ...
    **International Bestseller"Quite simply the best guide to the global economy today." —Fareed Zakaria**Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art. Narrowing the thousands of factors that can ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

    How to Run--or Ruin--an Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does.Enter ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Every Nation for Itself

    What Happens When No One Leads the World

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —nA world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesn’t work and the G7 is history.If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a global health crisis, the collapse of financial institutions from New York to Shanghai and Mumbai—where would the world ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fate of the States

    The New Geography of American Prosperity

    by Meredith Whitney ...
    "Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our growing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty." One of the most respected voices on Wall Street, Meredith Whitney shot to global prominence in 2007 when her warnings ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Unraveling

    Losing Our Way in the New Century

    by Paul Krugman ...
    "Paul Krugman is a hero of mine. Read his book."—Al FrankenNo one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than award-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly and columnist of the year ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud

    Truth For Our Time

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 21st Century Economy--A Beginner's Guide

    by Randy Charles Epping ...
    A comprehensive, accessible guide to understanding today's global economy, from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy.While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping uses compelling narratives and insightful analogies to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake

    Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community

    Edited by Anne-Marie Mawhiney, Jane Pitblado ...
    Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom.The closures and mass layoffs were first announced in 1990 with the layoffs occurring from then until June 1996. Throughout the period after the ... Read more

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  • Immigrants

    Your Country Needs Them

    by Philippe Legrain ...
    Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Capital as a Social Kind

    Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy

    by Howard Engelskirchen ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things of the world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural kind – has made an important contribution to our understanding of science in the last half century, but these advances have been largely applicable to the natural, rather than the social sciences. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Challenges of Doing Business in Papua New Guinea

    An Analytical Summary of the 2007 Business Environment Survey by the Institute of National Affairs

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This report summarizes the results of an extensive survey of the business community on the challenges of doing business in Papua New Guinea. It finds that despite some improvement in the business environment following a similar survey conducted in 2002, progress has been disappointing. Many of the issues identified then still have a negative impact on investment and entrepreneurship. To ensure ... Read more

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