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Humourous fiction, General fictionEconomics
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Harvard gets more than it has bargained for when the faculty hires economist Montgomery Marvin. His Index of Irrational Expectations…
(IRAT) forecasts trends in the stock market so accurately that Montgomery becomes a financial titan. He and his liberal wife Marjie begin using their wealth for good causes, such as underwriting peace chairs at the military academies. It's all too much for Harvard!
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General fictionEconomics
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Deux célibataires, qui vivent côte à côte, dans une entente d'autant plus étroite que l'une trouve son plaisir à obéir…
et l'autre à diriger...Survient un locataire, un jeune homme à l'air candide... "N'est-il qu'un grain de poivre dans l'existence un peu fade de Marguerite et de Germaine, ou est-ce le diable en personne? Questions inquiétantes qui donnent à ce roman une dimension inattendue et comme une odeur de soufre." [SDM
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General fiction, Serious and literary fictionEconomics
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Laetitia Rossi, secrétaire du directeur financier de la CGP, conglomérat aux multiples activités, voit un jour son compte bancaire crédité…
de 600 millions de francs. D'où proviennent-ils ? Laetitia pourra-t-elle les garder ? A partir de cet instant, elle se retrouve plongée au coeur des intrigues d'un véritable empire. Elle découvre un univers qu'elle côtoyait tous les jours sans le connaître.
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General fictionEconomics
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David Fox (Ph. D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year.…
He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a bookstore. ) So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)--affiliated with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)--wants to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate student showing the benefits of high school abstinence programs, fetchingly retitled "Something for Nothing," he ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all, publication is "the coin of the realm," as a senior colleague puts it. But David faces a professional and moral dilemma when he finds that his prized results may just be the consequence of a programming error. The school year is filled with other challenges as well, including faculty politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating "job talk" lecture under trying circumstances. David's adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for everyone interested in questions of balancing career and life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.
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This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought.
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General fictionEconomics
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A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life. David Fox (Ph.D. Economics,…
Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a bookstore.) So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)—affiliated with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)—wants to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate student showing the benefits of high school abstinence programs, fetchingly retitled “Something for Nothing,” he ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all, publication is “the coin of the realm,” as a senior colleague puts it. But David faces a personal dilemma when his prized results are cast into doubt. The school year is filled with other challenges as well, including faculty politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating “job talk” lecture under trying circumstances. David's adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for everyone interested in questions of balancing career and life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.
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General fictionEconomics, Business and economics
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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
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General fictionEconomics
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El primer i divertidíssim llibre d'Aleix Saló. Fills dels 80 és un retrat en clau d'humor de la generació nascuda…
a la dècada dels vuitanta, traçat amb una perfecta combinació de creativitat i ironia. El lector reconeixerà els personatges, les situacions i els comportaments que hi apareixen, pertanyi o no a aquesta generació. Parla de la reforma educativa, la cultura popular, l'oci, l'emancipació, l'entrada al món laboral i, en definitiva, de totes aquelles coses que van fer que els vuitanta fossin els vuitanta. Format especial KF8 per a tablets de Kindle.
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General fictionEconomics, Humour
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La nueva obra de Aleix Saló tras el imparable éxito de Españistán. Formato especial KF8 para tabletas Kindle. Las causas…
de la crisis.Los antecedentes de la crisis.Los efectos de la crisis. La corrupción irracional.La involución social.El gobierno disfuncional. Ha llegado la simiocracia. Aleix Saló vuelve a la carga tras Españistán. En su esperado nuevo libro te cuenta toda la verdad a calzón quitado y sin irse por las ramas. No podrás parar de sacudir el árbol.
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General fictionEconomics
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This book provides a description of a number of institutional features of the U.S. labor market and prompts an analytical…
debate about the origins of the institutions it describes and their significance for the operation of the U.S. economic system.
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General fictionEconomics, Business and economics
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This "Festschrift" honours Geoffrey H. Moore's life-long contribution to the study of business cycles. After some analysts had concluded that…
business cycles were dead, renewed economic turbulence in the 1970s and 1980s brought new life to the subject. The study of business cycles now encompasses the global economic system, and this work aims to push back the frontiers of knowledge.
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General fictionEconomics, Criticism
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This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism…
to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise and convenient set of terminology. The figure of the cosmoflâneur identifies a contemporary cosmopolitan character’s urban mobility and wandering consciousness in interaction with the global and the local. Posthuman cosmopolitanism also extends the meaning of cosmopolitan which comes to embrace the nonhuman alongside the human element. Defining narrative glocality, political hyper-awareness, and narrative immediacy, the book thoroughly explores how cosmopolitan narration forges direct responses to the contemporary world in postmillennial cosmopolitan novels. All of these concepts are elaborated in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House (2017), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), to which world-engagement is central.
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General fictionEconomics
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Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the…
night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer--which is also a major donor to the university. Ruth begins a dialogue with Ramon about prices, prosperity, and innovation and their role in our daily lives. Is Ruth trying to limit the damage from Ramon's protest? Or does she have something altogether different in mind? As Ramon is thrust into the national spotlight by events beyond the Stanford campus, he learns there's more to price hikes than meets the eye, and he is forced to reconsider everything he thought he knew. What is the source of America's high standard of living? What drives entrepreneurs and innovation? What upholds the hidden order that allows us to choose our careers and pursue our passions with so little conflict? How does economic order emerge without anyone being in charge? Ruth gives Ramon and the reader a new appreciation for how our economy works and the wondrous role that the price of everything plays in everyday life. The Price of Everything is a captivating story about economic growth and the unseen forces that create and sustain economic harmony all around us.